I haven't made this hat, but I have worked with rushes, the real ones that you have to go pick yourself out of the marshy end of a lake. There -is- no choice
In the images I've seen, the Alms baskets were carried by 2 handles, oval in shape. This seems to make sense for the idea of a Voider as well. Following the
The reference to the Alms basket sounds grimly possible. In Medieval England they used loaves baked in a crude oven to serve the Lord of the Manor and his
Okay, I took a few steps and looked... first, an alternate name for Voider is Alms Basket or Maund. A maund is described as being a small wicker basket with