Hippy Wizards Hat

 

This Wizards or Witches hat is definitely one for the festival market.

Handmade from hemp and cotton and with a rainbow pattern around the brim and base of the crown

The hat has a wired brim to hold its shape.

Definitely a comfortable hat to wear, you could easily wear all day or just fold it up and stuff in a bag.

Also a good summer hat, the loose-knit provides plenty of ventilation.

Apparently handmade in Napal.

Fake Fur Beanie

 This is a faux fur-trimmed knitted beanie.

With a very wide band of fur the hat is also lined with fleece, this makes it an excellent hat for cold winter weather or since it's snowing again, today's lovely spring weather.

It includes fake fur pompom dangly things which hang from strips of leather, these are purely decorative and serve no purpose other than to entertain cats.

The hat was purchased from my favourite trader Chows Emporium, I recommend all her products, never been let down by quality or service.

I think the pompoms match my beard.

Christmas Novelty Hat

 This is a hat for Christmas only.

A basic beanie with a pompom on top

Patterned like a Santa costume.

Then for added jollity, a white fleece beard mask hung from the front.

I was given this as Christmas gift and will wear it, also will make my Facebook avatar for this December.

The beard is detachable held in place with a couple of press-studs and in my opinion looks better without it, although that is probably not the point of this hat.

Button Down Hat

This hat was a brilliant Christmas gift, made by Julie.

Julie has knitted and crochet me 3 hats over several years, one of her hats is my most worn hat by a country mile and I can see this one becoming well worn as well

Julie has advised me the hat is modified from a pattern called Button Down Hat by Cheryl Oberle and published in a book called Luxury One Skein Wonders. 

She modified it to match the yarn she used and to make it bigger as she says all the hats in the book assume the wearer has a tiny head, if she followed the pattern it would have come out at 50cm rather than 60cm. 

The hat is intended to be roomy, like a bag so it traps air around the head and helps to keep in the warmth.

The hat is basically a rectangle with 2 of the corners folded down to give it shape

Seen in these last photos during a recent walk, complete with a twig which I did not notice

Goblin Hat

A hat that is suitable for a Goblin.

This hat has been part of the groups LRP kit since well before I joined the group

Part knitted, part fabric, part leather, part hessian, part fur, partly embroidered, roughly stitched together, and well tatty this mix-up looks very homemade.

Highly suitable for some beggar, ancient tribal type, witch doctor, goblin or similar that is trying to stand out. 

This is hat is a very popular part of the crew kit

Religious Hat

I think this is crocheted hat, but as I'm neither a knitter or crocheter, I'm probably wrong. 

The hat is not very stretchy but still fits well and is very comfortable to wear, the sort of hat you could wear all day without noticing.

Not following a particular religion this is therefore not something I would wear socially, so for Larp use only.

The cross crosslet in the design of the hat is not associated with any particular Christian religion, at least as far as I can tell, its more associated with the spreading of Christianity, i.e. its also called the missionary cross.

The hat has 2 little toggles hanging from the centre button, if anyone knows what they are called I would love to know.

Knitted Hood

When it comes to hoods most are made of fabric sewn together, this one, however, has been knitted to shape.

It's not lined but very comfortable wear, if a little out of place in most environments it doesn't work as regular street wear or for historical reenactment, it just about fits in a fantasy setting or maybe on wacky snowboarders head.

It's a good hood

Knit one now and become a trendsetter.

Nice long Liripipe for the hoods tail

Chilly Weather Hat

This Hat is called a Chullo.

Traditional to the people of the Andean mountain range of South America which stretches from Venezuela in the north right down to Chile in the south, this style of hat is more than a thousand-year
 old.

Usually made from alpaca, llama or sheep's wool

Alpaca wool like the one I'm wearing is particular good at insulating the wearer from the harsh elements of the mountains.

This is a very soft hat, almost felt like, I have no idea if that is typical of Alpaca wool.

Chullos have ear flaps that can be tied under the chin to help keep you warm, they come in many colours, but like Scottish tartan, the colours are significant to certain peoples of the Andes.