Hanna Hats

Tirconaill Street, Donegal Town, Co Donegal, Ireland.

'The typical Donegal thatched cottage has a most functional design. It keeps the elements at bay, protects the household against wind and rain, provides shelter and warmth in winter. In summer, it absorbs the sunshine and provides a cooling ambience. This ensures that the cottage tweed weavers who handcraft the Hanna cloth have the perfect conditions year round for their exacting task.

In exactly the same way too, the Hanna Hat provides its owner with that special cared-for appearance that only a Hanna Hat can. After all, what other hat can look so stylish, so distinguished and so much a part of the wearer.'
See also the lovely photos and audio from Nick Hand's Slowcoast series.

The Optimo Hat Company

OPTIMO HAT COMPANY from samuel j macon on Vimeo.

Hats: new and old

Hats: new and old,
originally uploaded by I like.

From the wonderful I Like flickr stream.

Victoria & Albert Museum

Hats: An Anthology (pdf), a collaboration between Stephen Jones and the V&A . The exhibition will display more than 300 hats chosen with the expert eye of a milliner. On display will be hats ranging from an Egyptian Anubis mask dating from 600BC to a 1950s Balenciaga hat and couture creations by Jones and his contemporaries. To show the universal appeal and delight of wearing hats, Jones has included a wide variety of styles including top hats, berets and a child's plastic tiara." Also includes an interesting resources page.

Hats of Jerusalem

'Perhaps if people wore hats, everything would be better, like it used to be, when everything was simpler, when everyone owned a hat.' Nothing was ever simple about the role of the hat among Jews or anyone else, as this extraordinary series of videos reveals.

Hat-Pins

An important accessory in the Victorian era, pins were used to secure those large hats in place. The Society of Great Britain has some useful information, as does the American Hatpin Society. Google images and Flickr have some good photos.

The Hat Site

The Hat Site is another trade site, but with quite a few useful links, including Books on Hats, hat care, sizing, etc.