REFERENCES TO STRAW HATS IN THE 17th CENTURY
compiled by Caroline Vincent
Book: A Visual History of Costume in the Sixteenth Century.
Illustration of a pamphlet dated 1592 shows countryman weaving a hat of 
shape which author Jane Ashelford believes
to be made of straw – “The Countryman’s hat , probably made of straw, has a wide flat brim.”
Author took postgraduate degree in History of Dress at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Book: A Visual History of Costume in the Sixteenth Century.
Unknown couple c1667. Unknown artist.
Flat-brimmed Straw Hats protect the face from sunshine.
Author Valerie Cumming Assistant Director of the Museum of London.
Book: Handbook of English Costume in the 17th Century.
by C. Willett Cunnington & Phyllis Cunnington.
Materials of hats “Straw “For a fine Straw Hat lined in the brims £1.4.0 ” ”
1632. Accounts of Ben Frewen, Haberdasher, Sussex Archeal. col.
Book: The Historical Encyclopaedia of Costume by Albert Racinet
introduction by Dr Aileen Ribiero
– Holland – styles complemented by Straw Hats, also worn by English Women.
Picture: Artist Aelbert Cuyp (1620 – 91)
River Landscape with Horseman and Peasants c1655
Woman wearing sleeveless bodice and wide brimmed yellow (straw) hat.
Picture: Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640)
Rubens and his wife, Isabella Brant, in the Honeysuckle Bower.
Isabella is wearing a plaited woven straw hat, high crowned,
wide brim & lined with silk.