In winter the Sami wore fur-lined cloth caps. They were decorated with colored cloth and beads.

Men wore cloth сaps lined with reindeer fur. The crown was usually lined with cloth of traditional colors: blue, green, black, yellow and red. Sometimes the lower part with earflaps was made of fox fur. The cap was ornamented with colored cloth, beads, and pearls.

Men also wore pointed caps knitted from sheep’s wool, sometimes with a pompon on top.

The Sami man’s cap presented in the Murmansk Museum of Local History is made of reindeer fur; its cloth top is of blue, red and yellow colors. The cap is decorated with bead embroidery and mother-of-pearl buttons.

The motifs on Sami craftwork are different, but each has recurring elements that make up the whole pattern. The main shapes of the patterns are triangles, rhombuses, squares, semicircles and wavy lines. Intricately intertwined, they form different compositions.

The distinctive patterns made of beads reflected the inspiration craftswomen drew from what they saw in nature. In the tale “Nikiya” recorded by the ethnographer Vladimir Tscharnoluski, Akkaniyda creates a miracle out of everything at hand,

Sami people obtained beads as a result of exchange with merchants. It is not known exactly when this decorative material first emerged in the region, however contemporary researchers, such as Ekaterina Ivanovna Mechkina and Anastasia Yeliseyevna Mozolevskaya, suggest that the first written mention of beads dates back to the turn of the 19th century.