Quote Originally Posted by thescot View Post
In fact, it was the end of the knitting, wasn't it? They just kind of gathered up the end of the stuff and tied it into t ball or something like that.
Right! On the earliest bonnets the ends of the knitting were gathered into a little tuft on top:
http://www.qualitycaps.co.uk/pages/p...ails.asp?ID=38

The full-blown pompom was later development....