Reclaim: Columbia

Reclaimed using a Columbia button-up collared shirt, get completely lost in this exceptionally steezy XXL fish camouflage, the shirt was used to make a ‘Leisure Cap’, ‘Boonie Bucket Hat’, and standard ‘5-Panel’.

The build begins with a thin cotton/polyester blend reinforced with two separate layers of interfacing to secure a sturdy and breathable fit. Using my best gauge, every hat portrays the flow of fish in stream, swimming 360 around each horizontal plane and straight laps up the vertical.

This project begins with the most suited cap for the release;

COLUMBIA fish camo - BOONIE BUCKET HAT

• Front Panel Columbia Woven Label

• Back Panel ‘Breast Pocket’ Back Stash

• Side Button ‘Mach Vents’

• Extra-Wide Brim with Drawstring

• Designers Label on Sweatband

columbia fish camo - 5 panel

• Yew Woven Label

• White 5mm Eyelets

• YKK Slide Adjuster

Columbia fish camo - leisure cap

• Yew Circular Leather Emblem

• White 5mm Eyelets

• YKK Slider Adjuster

• Designers Label on Sweatband

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

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:

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

SRT-Beige

It’s Tuesday, my favourite day to blog yo!

because on tuesday, yew get to find out more about the hats i, zamboni jabroni, create.

so what happens when yew’re thrifting around the local value village and ya come across a curtain; one can only assume was own by a 1980s steezlord. yew buy it, and you turn it into an amazing limited released hat drop.

this was a super fun project. heaps and heaps of thus said curtain was purchased and dismantled into its raw original fabric form. there was enough material to create a set of 15 up-cycled pre-owned curtain hats.

a quite neutral beige cotton/polyester blend, with snazzy accented, multi-coloured brush strokes. homies, were talking teal, we got dat magenta, hit em with the crimson red, dashes of orange, streaks of white, blotches of black, oh and if you look close enough, there’s some splatters of gold. like seriously, what absolute beauty had this gnarly thing draped in his foyer?

with the original Yew woven label on the front panel, black 4mm eyelets, and the ykk slide adjuster to close the hat. 15 hat’s were created, each and everyone were completely yewnique to the colour of their swatches, tis’ now just an old memory as they no longer exist on any shelf and currently reside on 15 beautiful human minds.

without further ad’yew, the SRT-Beige; savage, ruthless, and toothless.

Hand Gestures

Thank yew for stopping by for another edition of a design explanation.

back when i used to be drawing more often, back when i didn’t even know what illustrator was, back when i used to be travelling around, back when i used to be the feller i was then, i was actually sketching quite a bit there then.

any how, back in 2016 i found myself leeching wi-fi at an amazing library in Wellington, New Zealand. back when i was sketching like i was saying earlier, i sketched out a series of common hand gestures. these were quite detailed sketches, maybe something to be proud of yew know? got em all sketched out, and then hit them with some watercolours.

years later, i learned to make vector files and expanded my mind into digital. so these sketches were then imported and rendered and did some cool little edits to the finger nails to void them out. put in a repeated graphic in the background and boom!

here are the sketches and the graphics:

Violets are Yew

Welcome back to another hat explanation!

This one dates back to 2017 and was released in the spring as part of a week long floral tribute to celebrate the season.

Only one was designed, with the possibility of a few more with the little amount of fabric left over.

A completely lightweight sport material, deep navy polyester, with miniature floral print, red roses, pink and white daiseys, and of course yew violets. With the signature OG yew woven label on the front panel, and white 4mm eyelets on the sides, and custom matching plastic clip closure.

Just writing this intrigues me to re-use the rest of this fabric, so if it also sparks your interest send me a message for first dibs.

and remember

Roses are red, and violets are yew.

Yewnity

Welcome to another segment of me blabbering ‘bout how I create hats.

At this point I hope the majority of this following enjoys/appreciates these explanations - and if you do I would love if you commented your thoughts/opinions in the comment section below.

So here we go - this weeks hat explanation is dedicated to my ability to repurpose unwanted nothings into something incredible! The fabric that this was built from came from a set of old, old, old placemats. Unfortunately when I first started I didn’t document the raw materials before the hat process began. What made this project so important to this brand was it’s complete ‘Yewnique'-ness. There was only 4 small placemats in the bundle - which only allowed for a single hat to be manufactured.

Designed in the fall of 2017; this hat has a white cotton/polyester base showcasing a Olive ‘Toile’ pattern.
Toile is a beautiful pattern as designed by the French in the 18th century; its’ pattern usually contains figures of those dressed in 18th century garb and aspects of agriculture and its surroundings.

I called this hat ‘Yewnity’ as portrayed by the pattern of the fabric; each panel contains a different segment of the print, where individuals seem to be chillin’ and seeming to be having a sick time. I’ve included original photos as well as product shots in the slide show.

Signature ‘Yew’ Woven label, 4mm white eyelets, and custom back strap closure.