page_title: Cap hook
hierarchical_section_title: Cap hook
caption_attribution_description: English: Arthur, Prince of Wales (1486-1502), wearing a collar composed of red and white Tudor roses and hat with a hat badge bearing the figure of St John the Baptist and two rosette-shaped cap hooks.
context_page_description: A cap hook is a decorative hat ornament fashionable from the late Middle Ages through the Tudor period, used to pin up or decorate men's hat brims. Cap hooks were made of gold, silver, or silver-gilt base metal, and might be decorated with jewels or enamelling.
  Cap hooks could be purely decorative or could carry religious or symbolic meaning. The latter form are called enseignes and may be an evolution of the medieval pilgrim badge.
context_section_description: A cap hook is a decorative hat ornament fashionable from the late Middle Ages through the Tudor period, used to pin up or decorate men's hat brims.  Cap hooks were made of gold, silver, or silver-gilt base metal, and might be decorated with jewels or enamelling.
  Cap hooks could be purely decorative or could carry religious or symbolic meaning. The latter form are called enseignes and may be an evolution of the medieval pilgrim badge.
caption: Portrait of Arthur, Prince of Wales ca. 1500 wearing a hat with an enseigne badge of Saint John the Baptist and two small rosette-shaped cap hooks.[1]
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