How did women wear their hair in the middle ages?

Depending on whether you were a noble women or a peasant what you wore. The peasant women wore the wimple as well as nuns and married women. Noble women wore many types of headdresses a few of them are the "butterfly" headdress, the heart-shapped headdress, steeple caps, turbans and also the hennin. The hennin was a headdress that was high and pointed with a fine gauze vail. When women wore veils they would leave their hair down or braided. Some women, especially married women, wore tight caps and nets over their hair which was wound into a "bun" on top of the head.