Green Crimplene

a wonderful feeling for fashion, as leading houses have already discovered. It looks pleasantly weighty, yet feels light as a feather. It feels soft, yet can take any amount of wear.
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Hey yew all, thanks for checking in on today’s hat post.

This hat features a vintage fabric that can date back to the late ’50s called ‘Crimplene’. It is a type of synthetic polyester yarn used in all fields of fashion in Britain until the ’70s. It was a great lightweight, a no-itch polymer that kept its shape and proved to be wrinkle resistant. Check out the sweet-ass weave of this fabric though, it reminds me of some sort of arctic lime green tiger print or something! meow!

There wasn’t much of this fabric to begin with - so it makes this hat ever more of a gem. There is a 2016 prototype I made for my father and another in Berlin. These are the most recent four that were designed this past November.

• Vintage Green/White Crimplene

• Yew Woven Label

• White 4mm Eyelets

• YKK Slide Adjuster

• Emerald Stitching

These four are available right HERE

I give yew,

GREEN CRIMPLENE

yew, yew, yew & yew

I apologize for the lack of content, but sometimes hat-making can get quite exhausting - both physically and mentally. So I had the opportunity to travel to the Cayman Islands at the start of March with my two top homies Phil and Johnny.

Amongst having one of the greatest times ever, a revolution emerged.

The Pinky Pointer, can be used for pretty near anything you want to put your attention on or direct it towards. The true multi-functional finger. Step aside index finger, your time is over. Point this way, point that way, get his attention, get her attention, their attention, everything is more enjoyable when the pinky gets goin’.

Use is gently, snap it off from the hip firmly, use the top of your thumbs knuckle as a scope and snipe people out, hold your drink and point with it, it’s cool. We don’t know why, but it is easy and very effective to use. Try it out for free, for the first week, and let us know, or if you see me out and need a further explanation, lessons are free.

Look how happy everyone is:

Volyewm 5

Click on any image to re-direct to Spotify and play these Tidy Tracks!

Ritual Flannel

 Elhaz - the guardian rune of activated higher consciousness, protection, and confident warding away or destruction of harm and inimical forces. An active ward and defender. Increases the field of one’s magical power. Draw this sigil on anything you want to protect, including your hats.
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who doesn’t like a good flannel though eh? nothing finer than a thick coat of cotton on the ol’ tarp? yew can wear it out in jeans, hang out at home with it, pass out in bed with it, the ultimate cozy textile. Dated back to the 17th-century yew could have found Welsh weevers shaving sheep to invent this classic style of fabric.

ewe by yew, my new upcoming line of flannels.

this hat features a very fine, very rich green cotton flannel paired with one of the initial fabrics i first purchased from value village back in 2016 {so this hat significantly means a lot to me}. the pattern woven into this fabric pairs perfectly with the flannel and incorporates some sort of runic talisman with arranged dots of some sort. i’ve always sort of been into nordic scribe and norse mythogology, probably from too many video games.

This is my most recent hat release, using up both materials in full to create this 5 panel before yew:

• Vintage Lightweight Cotton Symbols

• Mediumweight Forest Green Flannel

• Yew Diamond Leather Emblem

• Yew Woven Label (sweatband)

• Custom Bias Tape

• White 4mm Eyelets

• YKK Slide Adjuster

• Forest Green Stitching

This set of 8 is available right HERE

I give yew,

Ritual Flannel

ewe, by yew.

get it?

boringggg

Cast Spells

Thank yew for stopping into the blog zone y’all!

I have a new graphic to share with everyone to cap off the week, I, unfortunately, cannot take full responsibility for this design. A few years back I was coming back from the tail end of a road trip. Had no foresight in booking anywhere to stay so the last resort was a pretty boujee Best Western outside Halifax at a place called Chocolate Lake. They had sick buffalo chicken wings, a pool, and an unreal arcade in the basement of the hotel.

The original graphic was off an old pinball machine that I could imagine was well dated from the ’80s. It was pretty beat up and all the paint was scratched off. I can’t find the old photo as its probably on my smashed up iPhone. So I cleaned up the graphic, edited in sharper lines, moved some things around, added new colorways, and through in some symbolic yew glyphs.

Looks as if buddy in the graphic is casting some sort of spell to control the mind of a kind cobra, assuming some sort of harm to whoever comes his way. I do not condone this sort of violence, so practice spells with the utmost of extreme caution as they can sometimes go south.

Cast Spells

Golden Gill

when’s a good time to come and get it, and how much moula?

- Steve Gill, making deals with his local hat dealer.
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Let me first introduce yew to the legend above us here, Steve Gill, sporting the first hat he purchased from me years back (Proxima Midnight). Since 2017 this guy has been supporting me and I can’t begin to tell yew how truly blessed I am to have befriended him since meeting him the day of his original purchase.

Couple months ago, Steve had wanted this cool hat I made a post about it, alas, the hat was on someone elses head. I suggested to him a similar style of fabric and proceeded to custom design a custom hat just for Steve.

This hat features a heavyweight cotton, with a super stee olive-gold colour with a sheen to its fibers.

• Upholstery Grade Textile

• Yew Woven Label

• White 4mm Eyelets

• YKK Slide Adjuster

• Buckskin Gold Stitching

One of One
Completely Yewnique for Steve,

I give yew,

Golden Gill:

Nesting Area

keep away from the piping plovers!

- Parnell MacDonald

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Here is a complete one of a kind design. One of One dedicated to the piping plovers, just hope they are doing okay over the winter, yew know what I mean?

This hat features a heavyweight woven cotton, you can really check out the detail of its weave in the photos.

Solid black, lightweight grey, and an off gold.

• Upholstery Grade Textile

• Yew Woven Label

• Black 4mm Eyelets

• YKK Slide Adjuster

• Buckskin Gold Stitching

Only One, Available HERE

I give yew,

NESTING AREA

SAVE THE POUR PLOVERS

Hershey: eat-more

This is a tribute to my favourite chocolate bar, the Eat-More:

what can yew say about the eat-more, yeah it may look like a doo, but if you look deeper its just chocolate toffee and bits of peanuts, don’t be embarrassed around friends anymore, it’s 2020 no one can say anything about the look of your chocolate bar, man.

aside from its look, yew have to admire the design of the bars’ packaging, it’s so inviting.

boom yellow,

rosey oranges and a field of grass green.

dark toffee peanut chew, what’s a guy to even do?

bold lettering and translation in french,

eat the bar that looks like a piece of poo,

just be

yew:

Aquatic Paisley d'Or

Velcome to noon-teen sheventy five Austin Powers and Fajaa. Yew see Mr Powers l love GOLD.

- Mike Myers

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The moment yew’ve all been waiting for has arrived, well, maybe not the moment everyone’s been waiting for, but if it is and what I’ve been bloggin’ catches your attention, then yes dude, send it! Let me know in the comments [that stuff really makes my day and helps me design even more, such blessings.]

This is the chicken dinner! The third and final hat of this ‘Aquatic Paisley Adventure Trip’ yew has been taking yew on. Best in Show at the regional fair, the prize gem, da stee mon. This hat features the arrangement of the previous two builds, the beautiful vintage paisley print, and the aquamarine textured woven cotton.

To further its radness, custom seam tape was made from the paisley fabric which lines the guts of the hat and closes in the back where a ponytail can come out of if yew have one. One of my all-time favorite threads ‘buckskin gold’ laces the entirety of the hat, as well as the YKK slide-adjuster.

This is the third, and final set of five:

• Vintage Paisley Cotton/Polyester

• Vintage Aquamarine Woven Cotton

• Yew Woven Label

• White 4mm Eyelets

• Paisley YKK Slide Adjuster

• Paisley Seam tape

• Buckskin Gold Stitching

Only two remain, available HERE

I give yew,

Aquatic Paisley d’Or:

wig out with your wigs out, toupée, more like yewpée!!

Paisley Power

The paisley design was commonly associated with rebellion; it was a statement of non-conformity, a welcome alternative to the preceding sober mod fashion trends. It was the perfect print for the androgynous hedonistic counterculture of the hippies.

The hippie look is strongly linked to the psychedelic "Summer of Love" when 100,000 people came together in Haight-Ashbury, a district of San Francisco, California to share their common beliefs such as rejecting consumerist values and encouraging pacifism.

Paisley patterns and other fabrics from around the world helped encourage a spirit of multiculturalism and, for the wearer, were visual statements of this principle.

- Patrick Moriarty

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Welcome back to the second part of this explanation series and I hope everyone had a great weekend! Apologies for no content posted over the weekend but was shredding with the homies on a little boarding mission to Martok in Chester, NS.

This hat features a beautiful vintage paisley print, which incorporates both small and large paisley combinations and floral attributes to the print as well. To further amplify its rad-ness, the fabric is screen printed with gold ink outlining certain features of the textile.

Heavy on the Teal, a faded Purple, a nice blush Red, and hints of Rose, Beige, and Black.

This is the second set of five:

• Vintage Paisley Cotton/Polyester

• Yew Woven Label

• White 4mm Eyelets

• Plastic Clip Closure

• Aqua & Buckskin Stitching

Only two remain, available HERE

I give yew,

Paisley Power

Yabba Dabba

“Barney, what’s the big idea, leaving the bowling ball in the middle of the floor!”

- Fred Flinstone
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Thanks for checking in y’all, we’re about to get prehistoric!

The Flinstones was always one of my favorite cartoons growing up, was always a riot watching Fred wig out at everyone and how memorable it was whenever Fred gets off work, slides down the brontosaurus’ neck and belts out “Yabba Dabba Doo!”

This is a design I came up with a little while back, very simple and very effective. If yew know me by now, or you’re just tuning in for the first time, it’s too easy to spin things off with yew, thus this design fits perfectly.

Yabba Dabba Yew, created using bones I built in illustrator and assembling them into letters, and using some fun color schemes to go along with it.

Yabba Dabba Yewwwww!

Aquadood

yew can catch him at low tide when the moon’s in full charge.

water shoes and jean shorts, no shirt and gold chain,
jet black mullet reflecting the last rays of the setting sun,
protected by the plastic lenses of his fake Oakleys.

he scans the sand with his Quantum XT.
for hidden bounty, lost treasure and wedding bands,
alas, nothing, as he lights up another dart,

the aquadood.
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Thanks for checking in! This is the first of the next three hat posts. Along with the fabric in this hat, the fabric in the next post to come, and the combination of the two, a limited set of beautiful hats were created.

This past summer, in my parents’ garage where I had my temporary studio, this collection was created.

Fifteen 5-Panel hats, five of each style,

This is the first five:

• Vintage Aquamarine Woven Cotton

• Yew Woven Label

• White 4mm Eyelets

• Plastic Clip Closure

• Aqua Stitching

Only two remain, available HERE

I give yew,

Aquadood