This knitting pattern includes instructions for 2 very similar headdresses. The instructions to make a Ribbed Cephaline appear in the 1840 edition of The Ladies’ Knitting and Netting Book by Miss Watts. The instructions to make a Melon Hood appear in an 1859 edition of Peterson’s Magazine. This modern interpretation of the pattern has been translated and brought up-to-date for the contemporary knitter. Finished objects that are produced using this pattern may be worn by reenactors looking to wear authentic items that would have been knit in the middle of the 19th Century.