That’s one expensive hat. Contrary to popular belief, cowboy hats, especially felt hats, are not the cheapest accessory on ...

The hats are made by hand by owner and milliner Eldrick Jacobs and take up to four days to craft. Jacobs shares his love for hat making by walking us through each step of the process, offering his ...

Flint and Port Hat Co. creates custom Southern-inspired hats made from long-standing hat material beaver-fur felt. The hat body is shaped by using steam, a hat block, and a hatter's knot ...

The underwool from the beaver pelts was used to make the beaver hat. The fur trade was based on the barter system and in the late 1700s a blanket was worth seven prime beaver pelts, a gun cost 14 ...

I make and sell hats all over Colorado ... the ban would apply to beaver fur. “Very few cowboy hats actually use fur. It’s only the elite ones that ultra-rich people buy.

I wanted to represent and wear it." All hats are custom-made, constructed of rabbit or repurposed vintage beaver fur felts, and each are crafted by hand, from sanding the brim to sewing in a ...