I've been trying to find a pattern for Wolf-Ear caps as seen in Miller's artwork. Does anyone know where I can find one or am I going to have to try and make a pattern on my own?

I hope not. I'm useless at making patterns.

Scarhand, try one of the Mountian Man sketch books

look through your back issues of ML. IIRC, less than two years ago the esteemed Mike Nesbitt did an article on them?

Rich

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look through your back issues of ML. IIRC, less than two years ago the esteemed Mike Nesbitt did an article on them?

Wow! That's news to me... I really think you should blame Rex Allen Norman for such doin's. Of course, you make me blush with all the credit I'm receiving, esteemed or otherwise... I can't find it right now to be sure but check the Nov/Dec issue of 2007, a story of Rex's called The Fur Cap. I seem to recall the wolf eared blanket cap in that one. Shoot sharp, Mike

you guys all look alike to me...

Rich

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you guys all look alike to me...

Oh, really? Don't let Rex know that... Shoot sharp, Mike

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
you guys all look alike to me...

Rich

Scarhand does own the Miller sketchbook, but that doesn't have any measurements or any clues as to actaul dimensions.

I can sew, but I'm no seamstress. I need more details than what Scarhand has.

Mrs. Scarhand

no real actual dimensions...I made one by just measuring my head from one side of forehead to the other via the back of my head...measured across the top-width and length..cut it a "bit" big and pinned it together, tried it on, made some adjustments and then stitched it up...I made it "just past" the top of my collarbone for top to bottom length...I also added a couple of ties under my chin..hope this helps a bit,Mitch

Just think about it a bit, did the mountaineer out in the far west in the day have a fancy pattern? Would he have been a fancy tailor? I don't think so, he was a beaver trapper. So how would he would have done it with what he had?

Take a lenght of string or such and wrap it around your head. Cut your wool to that lenght. Measure from the top of your head down to over your shoulders. Now cut out your wool with these measurements, you will have a rectangle. Fold over the long/shoulder lenght. Sew up that side, leave a couple of inches from the bottom. Turn iside out, pull it over your head. Like a flour sack. Make a cut out around your face and a slit about the same lenght you didn't sew on the other side for your shoulder. There you have it. When you pul it down the corners pop up like ears.

in the BOB # VIII page 86 is Ron Douglas (no relation) wearing a wolf-ear cap it looks like a simple cap and not to hard to make

Here is a link to a page on the Contemporary Makers blog showing Shawn Webster in a wolf ear cap. http://contemporarymakers.blog...tist-and-author.html

Let's see a picture when you get yours finished.

Lobo