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From the Water-Cure Journal, Dec. 1861:
"Hot to make a soldier's or traveler's night-cap:
Spread before you, on some convenient place, a moderate sized handkerchief; then, raising the corners near you, pass them over to the others, thereby folding the handkerchief in the center; still retaining the same two corners in your hands, again pass them toward you and lay them on the corners of the central fold. You will now have three thicknesses of the handkerchief near you, which take hold of by the corners, raise the handkerchief, and lay it down with the corners you hold farthest from you, and without letting go you return them respectively to the center of the edge near you, thus forming a triangle, or nearly so. You now roll the edge and the corners so folded back sufficiently far to secure all in the roll. List up the center and you will readily see the place for the head."
Colleen
"Hot to make a soldier's or traveler's night-cap:
Spread before you, on some convenient place, a moderate sized handkerchief; then, raising the corners near you, pass them over to the others, thereby folding the handkerchief in the center; still retaining the same two corners in your hands, again pass them toward you and lay them on the corners of the central fold. You will now have three thicknesses of the handkerchief near you, which take hold of by the corners, raise the handkerchief, and lay it down with the corners you hold farthest from you, and without letting go you return them respectively to the center of the edge near you, thus forming a triangle, or nearly so. You now roll the edge and the corners so folded back sufficiently far to secure all in the roll. List up the center and you will readily see the place for the head."
Colleen