Trinidad Safari

This is the Third instalment of the Spring Bucket Hat Release:

5th Avenue Designs
100% Cotton Vat Dyes
Preshrunk CovGard Finish
Water-Resistant

This is a Yew Standard Bucket:

Central Circular Leather Emblem
Dual Side Vented 5mm Eyelets
Custom Sweatband, Designers Label
Paired Thread Colours
Extra Wide Brim - Wave Stitching
Fits 25” Dome

A Collection of 7 in total.

Available for Purchase (April 24th, 12:00 A.M. ADT)

Trinidad Safari v 1.0

Tan Base / with Chocolate / Chestnut / Orange / Indigo / Black Swatches

Trinidad Safari v 2.0

Sky Blue Base / with Pale Blue / Seafoam / Pink / Violet / Cream / Orange / Red Swatches

Trinidad Safari v 3.0

Cream Base / with Black / Crimson / Rose / Indigo / Teal / Seafoam/ Chocolate Swatches

Trinidad Safari v 4.0

Black Base / with Copper / Forest Green / Royal Blue / Violet / Cyan / Red / Fuchsia Swatches

Trinidad Safari v 5.0

Slate Blue Base / with Sky Blue / Tan / Cream / Silver / Grey / Seafoam Swatches

Trinidad Safari v 6.0

Red-Brown Base / with Light Blue / Purple / Merlot / Black / Dark Turquoise / Rust Swatches

Trinidad Safari v 7.0

Navy Base / with Brown / Tan / Turquoise / Candyfloss / Rust / Grey Swatches

Navajo-LD

According to Navajo tradition, weaving is the most ancient and sacred practice of their people. Two spirits, the Spider People, brought hemp seeds to the Navajo. Spider Man taught them to make the loom, while Spider Woman taught them how to weave so that they could always provide for themselves. From this, the entire Navajo conception of society, balance, harmony, and prosperity was founded. In this history, we see that weaving actually rivals farming or hunting in terms of importance to the Navajo.

- Christopher Muscato

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Good Tidings yew all! Thanks for peeping by to check out this hat explanation.

This cap was an extremely fun project for a few reasons. One, an old friend commissioned the build for his brothers’ birthday. Two, if yew know me, I have slight issues with self-diagnosed OCD, and the pattern of this fabric really made me think hard about the initial cuts. Three, ultimately the look and feel of this fabric. This fabric came from my local Value Village, and buddy, I got yards and yards of this material and I am so grateful because it is so stee! So if this hat interest yew, I can recreate it, or turn it into a Bucket Hat or 5-Panel.

Ultimately, and I know I say it a lot, but this is an all-time favorite. I found it back in 2016 and it’s honestly been sitting in reserve until a time when I deemed necessary to use it. Well, the time is now, as I am very confident in my sewing machine skills and design techniques. I wouldn’t consider this a denim, but it does honestly have the feel, weight, and look of it. The colors featured are mainly a washed-out black, a beautiful violet, faded red, cream, and teal.

Upon researching some history about the Native-American Navajo tribes, I came to find out that their people believed they came through some sort of reversed reincarnation. Going through separate stages of life until eventually becoming humans. What brought them through these ‘underworlds’ is what they considered their deity ‘The Supreme Wind’ who gives life to all things on our earth.

That being said, and being a hat-maker, I named this hat as a pun. When a gust of wind comes along and you are wearing a cap, the common phrase we all know growing up; hold on to your hat. Navajo-ld on to your hat m8.

• Vintage Navajo Pattern

• Yew Leather Circle Emblem

• Black 4mm Eyelets

• YKK Slide Adjuster

• Black Stitching

I give yew,

Navajo-LD

Fafa Firefly

My boys always try to give a fam discount at their stores. No way i need yew and their stores to stay healthy so i can keep wearing the funk.

The Engineer of Stoke & Steez

- Fletcher Sayia

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This was a custom ordered project from a newly befriended homie, Fletcher Sayia, The Spice Lord. Sometime back in December Fletcher had come across my designs in a storefront window in Hoboken, NJ. Where my products can be found for sale in an art gallery owned by the Roig Collection Family. Fletcher had made his original purchase in Hoboken and reached out to me directly over the phone to chat about his next purchase and a custom order that he and his daughter could sport together.

Fletcher is one of those rad guys who truly supports and emphasizes the importance of small businesses and purchasing true handmade quality to keep guys like me and other artists afloat. I can always count on receiving a dm-slide throughout the week, fire emojis on my insta-story content, and the occasional Whatsapp to check in on me. Truly blessed to have met this legend and all the hype he brings forward in my craft. An honorary Yew Crew member, and cannot wait to link up and shred a surf in NJ once all this global corona madness settles.

This pair of hats was made for himself and his two year old daughter, Reece:

• Thick Woven Upholstery Grade

• Yew Woven Label

• White 4mm Eyelets

• YKK Slide Adjuster

• Ivory Stitching

I give yew,

Fafa Firefly

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:

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:

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

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

Olive Corduroy Cap

Hello Crew,

This is not a hat explanation, more so an information update.

The 5 Panel isn’t everyone’s thing, and I get that, it’s hardly my thing anymore, obviously, it used to be, considering the minor mass quantity of handmade ones all over this website. People always were asking to switch it up, so I have, and the reason it’s coming so late in the game is that I wanted to perfect the design of them.

Here are the first available ‘Standard Leisure Caps’
there is a limited quantity of this material,
made to order HERE for yew,

by yew:

thank yew.

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!