Red Baron

As Christmas soon approaches and while the corduroy train’s-a-rollin’, I thought it would esthetically pleasing to make the same build as last week - but in an eye-poppin’ candy apple red.

This project uses a heavyweight cotton/polyester blend; it has great stretch and gives the hat a more form-fitting feel. The corduroy on this is larger due to the thickness of the blend compared to the green corduroy from last week which had more ripples than this given textile.

Each hat is lined with a fusible black mesh inter-facing and paired with red eyelets, red stitching, red cord stopper, and a customized red corduroy sweatband for the bucket hat only.

Introducing Red Baron:

Green Machine

Corduroy, corduroy, corduroy, man do I love working with corduroy - it has everything you want in a fabric. It’s got that classic rippled touch, the mellow parallels, the coarseness of its fibers pops, and is always sure to catch an eye by every passer-by, man. The weight, stretch, and steez makes this textile even more suitable for my hat making quest.

For this project, I went back and fine-tuned my regular templates and hybridized them with some current patterns. Over time I began to notice, and what I don’t want to call ‘flaws’, but imperfections in my original templating. So I took a peep back and just made my templates more sound, more form-fitting designs engineered with the latest technical know-how; because I push myself to continue to create unreal products for my consumers. Push the boundaries bobcat!

‘Art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic Italian model: but the poetry, above all, of linseed oil and turpentine.

Wyndham Lewis

Introducing the Green Machine, this project contains the new standard builds for the upcoming Yew Year.

Interested how it is all made? Here is a high-speed video of me creating all (3) of these hats!