From the author’s description:

“This is a piece of clothing that has many names. Some people call it a cowl. Others call it a wimple, and others just call it a hood….It is a drapey hood that you put around your shoulders, where you can wear it like a really wide cowlneck, or pull it over your head, where it makes a lovely, flattering hood….This knits up quickly and is warm without being too warm. You can wear it either for fashion or for your ears. The stitch is Turkish--a simple form of vertical faggoting from Volume 1 of Barbara Walker’s invaluable A Treasury of Knitting Patterns, which, in one of the mysterious quirks of knitting, goes diagonal when you knit it in the round. It is classic, useful, and also slightly unusual.”