"Tree of Life" Hat

This pattern is a part of the cycle “Tripillia” and it refers to the heritage of a big ancient civilization Cucuten-Tripillia which was located in Southeastern Europe including the territory of modern Ukraine. For communication, they used logographs (written characters that represent a semantic component of a language, such as a word). Logographs were also used in decorative arts, most often as amulets.

Apparently, Tripillia people were thinking a lot about the structure of this world, the flow of time, the connection between generations. The colorwork on this hat has a logograph that means “tree of life”. It was a protective symbol, symbol of the World’s and Time’s unity, and it was a model of the Universe.

This hat is knitted bottom-up, in the round, starting with half-twisted ribbing, decorated with simple colorwork in the body. The crown decreases gradually in sections, and is gathered at the peak.