Voyageur Cap, knitting pattern

These hats have many names depending on what century you are in and which part of the world.

Whether you know them as a Voyageur cap, a tuque, a double cap or a sailor’s cap, this pattern is based on surviving caps from the seventeeth and eighteenth centuries and is accompanied by historical notes and references.

Use yarn that will full, these are very adaptable to being arranged in different ways.