hatmaking

Hello, fellow hat friends! Another wonderful day at the hatmaker’s bench, preserving a little piece of hatmaking history! Today’s project was resizing a beautiful 1990s Borsalino from the historic Batsakes Hat Shop in Cincinnati, Ohio, established in 1907, for one of Gus’s longtime customers...

Hello again, fellow hat friends! A little progress update on my vintage TONAK hat making project! Pictured here is a lineup of beautiful vintage rabbit fur felt hats I’m currently working on, using materials generously passed along to me by Mr. Gus Miller of the historic Batsakes Hat Shop in...

Hello, fellow hat Friends! I thought I’d share a little sampling of the vintage TONAK hat bodies that Gus generously passed along to me from Batsakes Hat Shop in Cincinnati. These hat bodies date from the late 1960s and 1970s, with the majority coming from the 1980s. Along with them came a...

Preserving Hatmaking History: Batsakes 1907 and a New Family Chapter Hello, fellow hat friends! Although I'm relatively new to participating here on The Fedora Lounge, I've spent much of my life immersed in the wonderful world of hats. I thought this would be a great opportunity to introduce...

I wanted to share the first hat I made. I had wanted to get into hatting since I got into hats, and eventually I intend to portray a hatter at Civil War reenactments as practically as possible given technology differences. I followed Robert Gault's online fedora course, which was great. The hat...

Hi, I'm selling a set of my wooden hat blocks. I hate to sell them, but I need to make room for my new baby. They were purchased on Ebay for about $960 + shipping a few years ago and I'm looking to sell them as a set for $850 + free shipping. I believe they're "sportsman style" which is...

Hello TFL, I'm selling my brand new blocks, foot tolliker, pusher down and hat stand. - Regular oval block with a bigger dome - sizing : circumference - 22.83" or 58cm. Length - 8.07" (20.5cm), width - 6.1" (15.5cm), heigth - 5.9" (15cm). Made of pine. - Long oval block with a smaller dome -...

Yeah, as the title implied, i wanted to be a hatmaker. And i just found this forum of ladies and gentlemen whom i hope know a thing or more about making a hat and it would be nice if any of you would to share some knowledge or wisdom for me. Thanks dearly