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:

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

where yew to?

where yew to Jake O’Doyle?

30cm of snow is dropping,

but we’re still gonna get silly,

and send it.

Here’s a design that I whipped up this morning.

Just something a little simple, easy line work, used the stroke tool and hit it with dashed line segments and multi-direction arrowheads, neato color schemes and transparent backdrops.

where Yew to?

let me know what yew think in the comments below

be the best yew today!

OP-Redondo

“Olive,
Poor thing,
Sits and thinks
That it's drab.
Sure does.
Sits and sits and sits and sits and thinks
About its olive drab drab.”

K. Nordine

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Welcome to the half-way point throughout your week, and thank yew for tuning in for a hat explanation.

About a year ago I got home from living/traveling Australia for the year. Leaving for that trip I didn’t want to stop creating, so I packed an additional piece of luggage full of fabrics, hardware, threads, and some critical sewing essentials. Once established, I found a beautiful Singer Golden Touch on Gumtree, went and sent to it. This range of hats was designed from two beautiful combinations of grade-A fabrics.

textile 1: Lightweight Olive Woven Cotton

textile 2: Cream base, Scarlet / Gold / Beige / Olive Paisley

• Yew Woven Label

• Accented Front, Underbrim and Adjuster

• White 4mm Eyelets

• YKK Slide Adjuster

• Olive Thread

In the Australian winter of 2018, living in a small beachside apartment on the Gold Coast, fourteen of these beautiful olive and paisley printed hats were designed at 3 Redondo Ave, 4220, Miami.

I give yew,

OP-Redondo

That it is about to be named color of the year
By those with the nose for the new,
By the passionate f’yew.

yew.

Turntquoise

it’s the weekend and its Saturday night.
there some feelers for the fevers and fienders.

sharpen the skates, time to get lit up.

completely pitted, wake up in the snowbank
two blocks from your place.
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thank yew for stopping by on the first of February for an explanation.
this design was a custom ordered project from 2018. the project began by a customer specifically choosing a fabric I had in stock, and what a dandy she done chose. Using a 25 sq. in. factory sample there was enough fabric to create two custom hats:

a beautiful, heavyweight, woven turquoise cotton/polyester blend.

• Yew Woven Label

• White 4mm Eyelets

• YKK Slide Adjuster

• Teal Stitching

i give yew,

Turntquoise

Completely Cubed

Ola!

Thanks for dropping by to check out a new, old, design.
I’ve been on a big creative curve lately to try and publish as much as I can.

So I was going through some old files and came across an attempt to create perfect, symmetric letters of yew. The file was trash, and my skills had improved, so I did some touch ups, straightened some lines, worked with some old and new colour tones.

Each letter is perfect cube, they line up real good, stack real well, and thats about it because at the end of the day it’s just a cube.

some nice yew cubes, some nice colour palettes to boot.

another set of nice yew cubes, tried out some new colour palettes on these bais.

the cubes got into my stash, again. some feathering, blurring and warping mane.

CUBE, CYEWB, CUBA, CYEWBA, KISS MY CHAIN, GANG!

KM-Blaisley

what is it about paisleys?

something about the shape and designs can be mesmerizing.
one of the oldest dating ornaments, this shape is know as a Boteh in Persian, also has been dated back to the 9th century which further promotes is fashionable statement.

notably found on expensive carpets, fine silks, and rare rugs, how more suitable to find it on a custom series of hats, limited to those worthy of its powers imbued.
what??
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thanks again for stopping by, this was a fun project almost going back two years now.
a friend of mine, Kevvo, a long supporter of my hat-cause, had previously purchased multiples of my designs from early on. so I invited Kev to come into the studio and pick out his own new hat, as well as a full collection to boot.

textile 1: black cotton/polyester blend, light brown / lime / yewllow / darkgreen / white paiselys

textile 2: yellow microfibre

textile 3: light brown corduroy

this hat came in 3 variations; where each version holds a different brim fabric.

• Yew Woven Label

• White 4mm Eyelets

• Plastic Clip Closure

• Yellow Thread

I give yew,

KM-Blaisley v1.0-v3.0

Blaisley cause like, blaze, blazin’.
yew know?

VL-Rhythm

Velour, dude, what a textile.
Soft, lush, and steez to the touch.
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thank yew for dropping by to check out this explanation.
this hat was designed in the winter of 2018, for the specific reason of keeping your melon toasty.
these velour hats are sure to keep any noggin’ nice and warm.

textile 1 : an off-white velour base, with indigo, chestnut and black watercoloured streaks

textile 2 : extra plush chestnut brown velour

this hat comes in 4 variations, where each panel becomes the substitute for the next,
creating a constant rhythm and flow mon.

• Yew Woven Label

• White 4mm Eyelets

• YKK Slide Adjuster

• Brown Thread

I give yew,

VL-Rhthym v. 1 to 4

Currently resting on,
A Fire Chief in Australia,
An Architect in Australia,
An Electrician in Yew Zealand
For sale in Yew Jersey

Trippy Mane

made this graphic about two years ago now, always really enjoyed it.

cleaned it up a little and played around with some color schemes, always fun to go back to old designs and polish things up.

was always hoping that this graphic could make it on some apparel, maybe some screen prints over this winter perhaps would be in order, yes, yes, its all coming together now.

anyhow, this was me trying to give ‘YEW’ a tripped out vibe, sort of hit i i thought, kind of spooky too. lil spook, lil steez.

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maroon/mint on slate

periwinkle/lime on tangerine

dandelion/gunmetal blue on bubblegum

teal/white on noir

something a bit different i thought would be nice as a page slider, let me know what yew think?
leave a comment in the box below or message anytime.

Holla @ Me

wolves, who isn’t a fan?

perhaps one of the most majestic creatures to grace us in this world.

canis lupus, canis l’yewpus.
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there are two fabrics used in this creation.

firstly, what are wolves? well this was already established prior, majestic.

wolves have long coats of fur, which makes them; secondly, soft.

this is why at yew supply co, we carry suede-like, plush textiles to completely customize any hat what ever the circumstance, and in this case to coordinate the grandeur of a wolf pelt.

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this is what you would call a super rare fabric, holographic if it could, if you would.

donated to me by one of the sweetest ladies i’ve met in my life, who originally used the fabric to make pillows for children in need. thus, with the little amount that was given to me, two hats were created.

this is one of them:

• cotton/polyester wolf print

• thick tan brown suede

• Yew woven label

• white 4mm eyelets

• ykk slide adjuster

Where did you come from?
What are you doing here?
Canis Lupus!
Vulpes Vulpes!
I don't think he speaks English or Latin.