Tanu

This rather small headdress is secured on the head with pins. The west coast of Estonia, on the small island of Muhu with the area of ​​only 200 sq.km, it is considered a festive headdress; in everyday life, the Estonians here used to wear a hand-knitted woolen cap with a tuttmyuts, a long brush. The traditional color for the Tanu Muhu was orange, but in the early 20th century, the local peasants picked up a lot of floating mines unexploded during the First World War and used picric acid of the mines to manufacture new, bright yellow dye, which color became for a time the traditional color of the Estonian peasant costume.