The image that interested me in The Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald tapestry was actually not the one above, but the execution scene in the left-hand panel below. In some black and white reproductions of this image, the man about to be executed appears to possibly have a hairnet on - the colouration is uniform (whereas some other depictions of hair in the tapestry have clear detail suggesting strands and curls of hair), and the 'hairline' is quite uniform, whereas most of the other depictions that are clearly hair are more 'raggedy'.
This isn't the case for all of the figures who clearly have exposed hair, such as some tonsures. Does anyone have a better quality reproduction of this image? The detailed version on Wikimedia, below, looks like it has been scanned from a book, and at that level of detail, the printing matrix gets in the way of detail.
If this image did indeed show us a hairnet, then that would be the fourth 'strongly circumstantial' image we have for this issue, and I'd feel happier about taking this all to print ... however, at this resolution, I don't yet feel confident that it's not just an 'undetailed' depiction of hair.
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons...nbald.jpg)
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