~ Size Specific Ready Made ~
We have been making hats in Oregon since 1978, time enough to accumulate a diverse collection of hat fabrics and line of hat styles. This web page and all its links are a reference towards that immense diversity. “Uncut Options” is a newer and thereby more comprehensive format, but the center of this page revolves around the monumental hat documentation of 2020 - 2025. That’s why many of the hats say, “$0” and “Sold Out”. When first created, this page was quite a celebration. A snapshot of our work, all in one place. Ultimately though, the upkeep of individual hats online proved to be to much of a work burden.
Then! This project took on an entirely new identity! This page is now designed to mimic the experience of being in our hat booth at a festival or market in the Pacific Northwest. If you are interested in this option, first you will need to know your exact hat size. There is a movie about this topic called HPTV1 on the Media page. Or, if you would prefer text, click here. Equipped with this knowledge, you then peruse the links below. Mainly you will be looking at fabrics, but you may also be looking at mixed fabric compositions- for example Sports Caps are often a hat made from two different fabrics.
You are welcome to inquire about any hat photograph, please send requests using the Fabric Library Order Form. Don’t be too bummed out if we don’t have the fabric in a certain photo anymore. With the exception of the “Uncut Options” link, these photographs are only getting older. However, there is an immortal path here if you are game for it: this page shows you what kind of hats we make. Although we may not be able to duplicate a hat from the past, we are constantly making hats and buying new fabric. Our fabrics are diverse, but in another way they are always the same; and we are drawn to make hats of a similar style again and again.
Please fill out the Fabric Library Order Form to prompt us, and in turn we will find hats in your size / preferred styles / preferred fabrics in our current hat booth inventory. Throughout the website, this purchase option is referred to as ~ Size Specific Ready Made ~ hats.
Listen closely: this page is vast. It is not the place to make a traditional online order, check out the various Catalog Pages on the Homepage for that.
Although this page is geared mainly towards people interested in our ~ Size Specific Ready Made ~ option, it can also be used to design a hat from uncut fabric. This is called a Fabric Library Special Order.
Why are the hats numbered?
(As you explore the links on this page you will quickly see the numbers in the title of each hat. All hats have names like, Sports Cap #222 or Touring Cap #007.)
With these hat numbers we will search our ~ Size Specific Ready Made ~ options, and/or Fabric Library Special Order options. Clearly this is a creative and unique hat purchasing venue, so hold on tight for the next twist: if you choose ALOT of numbers, that helps us. If you say, “I like the Full Cut, but maybe the Deep Cut is okay too?” that helps us. Vague directions are big targets, rigid precise wishes make for small targets. This twist, obviously, is most poignant when using our ~ Size Specific Ready Made ~ option, but it informs the Fabric Library Special Order option as well. If you need an exact hat fabric/style, we can probably get there- we have a lot of hat making capacity. But if you can afford some limberness or flexibility in your Fabric Library Special Order, you might find that your dream hat is completed more quickly.
