Gable hood

A gable hood, English hood or gable headdress is an English woman's headdress of c. 1500–1550, so-called because its pointed shape resembles the gable of a house. The contemporary French hood was rounded in outline.

Originally a simple pointed hood with decorated side panels called lappets and a veil at the back, over time the gable hood became a complex construction stiffened with buckram, with a box-shaped back and two tube-shaped hanging veils at 90-degree angles; the hanging veils and lappets could be pinned up in a variety of ways to make complex headdresses.

Early gable hood: Elizabeth of York c. 1500

Front and back views of a box-backed gable hood of c. 1528–30. Detail of a drawing by Holbein

Gable hood with lappets and one side of veil pinned up (engraving after Holbein c. 1535)

Gable hood of c. 1543

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