On the Brands

In any hat or cap from Hanna Hats you start feeling completely different. It is just that your outlook changes. We have tested this assumption first on ourselves, and then on all out friends. When you know who, where and of what made your headgear, it uplifts you on a quite different level in ouf faceless world of globalization.

Just peer into the texture of Irish tweed. From a distance, it might seem single-colored but this is not so. In its every square centimeter there are specks of different hues. These are the colors of Irish nature, and this is traditional.

Woolen tweed fabrics for our headwear are woven to order if a number of shops located in Donegal, in the north of Ireland. They are made only from the local sheep wool of the highest quality. Before spinning, the wool is not completely defatted, so it preserves its water-resistant qualities, and holds warmth better.

All colors the yarn is dyed are taken from picturesque, fabulous and yet austere landscapes of Ireland. Our caps and hats are manufactured at a small factory of Hanna Hats in the same county of Donegal. The Hanna Hats company was established in 1924 by David Hanna, the grandfather of the present factory head Eleanor Hanna, and initially the company made suit to order. However, after several decades of successful operation, the demand started decreasing. The manufacture of the first hat under the Hanna Hats label too four hours and a half.

Thanks to the rich experience in making clothes to order, the foundation for the tradition of Hanna Hats headgear was laid. To this day, the team attaches a great importance to trying to make every article preserve the warmth of those skillful hands that took part in its creation.

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The brand founder John Batterson Stetson was born in New Jersey, in 1830. His father Stephen Stetson was a hatter, and John had used to work in his father's shop until he went West in search of gold in Colorado mountains. While there, the legend goes, he thought of a beaver felt hat with wide brim that could be resistant to inclement weather and practical in the hard life of gold-diggers. When his expedition drew to a close, he agreed to sell his hat to a cowboy friend of his who appreciated the hat's comfort and convenience. Apart from anything else, one could carry water in it. The future manufacture owner got five gold dollars for it.

The brand's history starts in 1865 when John Stetson moved to Philadelphia and launched a small-scale production of quality hats. They started with models popular at the time but soon enough they decided to make the same headgear John created in Colorado mountains of beaver wool. That was how the still famous hat appeared, Boss of the Plains. Although Stetson headgear was always expensive, their popularity grew. For a cowboy, a real Stetson was a good investment for the hat was comfortable and served well for a long time, and city dwellers considered it a sign of prosperity. By the beginning of the 20th century, the Stetson factory in Philadelphia was the largest hat manufacturer in the world. They put out about two million articles a year.

The company went a long way, through the Great Depression of the 1930s, two world wars, and growth pains, but it managed to preserve the main thing, the spirit of American traditions established by brave gold-diggers of the mid-19th century.

The times change, and caps today are more popular than hats but the ones from Stetson are the same, functionally, for they are still comfortable and practical, and they emphasize their owners' statuses.

Stetson cap silhouettes are as recognizable as their cowboy hats'. The ideally checked proportions, neat seams, and sturdy materials are their features. Many brands try to copy their models but no copy, of course, can approach the original.

Stetson today is the large international company that manufactures high-quality headwear and accessories in many countries of the world. Their best cap models are now manufactured in Czechia and Bulgaria for the entire world. They are the ones we present here.

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The history of the City Sport brand began in 1898, when Victor Declercq, a successful textile merchant from Ardooie in West Flanders, Belgium, decided to create a small caps manufacture. Seven craftsmen from the neighboring city of Diksmuide were invited, and his wife Marie Olivier became the co-founder of the enterprise.

Victor Declercq was a natural-born entrepreneur and respected the gentleman traditions of personal grooming. He was easily recognizable thanks to his luxurious long mustache, which his personal barber took care of daily.

Thanks to decades of honest work, the City Sport brand name has become inextricably linked with the idea that their first-class caps are not just a headwear, but an exclusive and fashionable accessory for demanding gentlemen.

Today, the fourth generation of the Declercq family runs the company. Based on the fruits of the work of his predecessors and contributing to the future, Tom Declercq (current director of the company) continues to be connected with history, family traditions of doing business and creativity. He personally corresponded with Tweed Hat, and each letter showed caring, subtle mind and undisguised love for the work of his family.

Today, City Sport caps can be bought in most of European countries (more than 400 stores work with them), they are represented in the USA and Canada, but the production is still located in Ardooie, a small Belgian town near Bruges. The company takes on the production of caps for other brands, for example, City Sport produces caps for the aristocratic English brand Lock & Co. Hatters and for London-based designer Thomas Farthing.

A few words about the City Sport Caps brand name, which for the modern man may sound a bit off-key. This is due to the fact that at the end of the 19th century, when the brand was created, caps were, first of all, an element of a suburban, sports or hunting suit. And only later, already in the 1910-20s, tweed caps confidently entrenched in the everyday wardrobe of the city dweller.

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The Ye Olde Cappe brand was established specially for the Tweed Hat store. This is our name for the knitwear with history, going back to past ages.

The basic article in our range is the Monmouth cap, the British headgear popular in the 15th — 18th centuries among different social strata, from sailors and soldiers to aristocracy. The Monmouth cap is the ancestor of all modern knitted headwear.

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The Ecuadorian company К.Dorfzaun was founded by German emigres who left for South America in 1938, before the World War 2 started. Rudolph Dorfzaun wore straw panamas when he still lived in his old country, being very much impressed by their beauty and quality. After moving to Ecuador, he decided to make his living on them, by launching their production and exporting. In 1944, his nephew Kurt Dorfzaun joined him, and he played the crucial part in the formation and development of the enterprise. He had been the head of the company until recent times.

All over the world, classic straw hats are called "panamas", although they are manufactured not in Panama but in Ecuador exclusively, of the special local palm fiber called "toquilla". The misnomer is used due to the fact that they became widely popular when the Panama Canal was being constructed, in 1904–1914. Many construction engineers wore them, as well as the US President Theodore Roosevelt who visited the grand construction site. His photographs spread all over the world, and his image added significantly to the Ecuadorian straw hats promotion.

The K.Dorfzaun brand is not widely known among customers outside of Ecuador despite the fact that the company is one of the largest manufacturers and exporters of first-grade straw hats in the country. The reason is simple. Most of their hats they make for American and European brands, like Stetson and Resistol, and only the immaculate quality remains of the initial maker, and the stamp "Hand woven in Ecuador".

These days, the priorities for K.Dorfzaun's operations are not only the preservation of handicraft traditions of the past and the superb quality of what they do but their social responsibility for their personnel and the environmental care.

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The story of Two Palms began in the early 1980s, when brothers Sang and James Yi moved to the Hawaiian Islands from their native South Korea, captivated by the rugged and natural beauty of the islands and the friendliness and sincerity of the locals. They were fascinated by what is called "Aloha Spirit" in English, which means "Hawaiian spirit of joy, peace and love".

They saved money for several years, and eventually managed to open a Hawaiian clothing store near the famous Waikiki beach in 1989. Their mission was to spread the true "spirit of Hawaii" to both tourists and locals. Gradually the store grew and developed, but the brothers felt that something was missing. There was a lack of high-quality and authentic locally made shirts made from natural fabrics with beautiful prints at reasonable prices. And in 2000, they decided to start their own production to create Hawaiian shirts and other clothing under their Two Palms brand.

The main values of the brand are: local production (the factory is located in Honolulu, the capital of Hawaii), high-quality natural fabrics, authentic coconut buttons, all fabric patterns are created exclusively for the brand and are protected by copyright.

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The Czech brand Tonak has a long and complicated history, closely connected with the history of the city of Nový Jičin and the Czech Republic itself.

It begins in 1799, when the hatmaker master Johann Nepomuk Hückel from the city of Fulnek was admitted to the Hatter Guild of the city of Nový Jičin and opened his first workshop there. It became a family enterprise later when his younger brother Augustine joined him. In 1848, under the leadership of Augustine's son named Johann Albert Hückel, it evolved into real manufactory. After studying Western European experience, by 1867, the Hückel family company created the first hat manufacturing facility with steam equipment in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Since the 1870s, the "Hat Factory of the Sons of Johan Hückel" (Hutfabrik Johann Hückel's Söhne Company) was one of the largest European manufacturers and exporters of hats, with a staff of about 1200 people.

The success of the Hückels inspired the industrialist Anton Peschel to step into hat business himself. By 1871, he built his own hat factory in the suburbs of Nový Jičin, also equipped with steam machines. The production of hats under the brand name Anton Peschel successfully continued after the death of the founder in 1885 under the leadership of his wife Louise, and then sons and descendants until the middle of the 20th century.

The beginning of the 20th century was the period of the pan-European industrial boom (and, of course, the universal wearing of hats). In 1912, the third large hat factory was founded in Nový Jičin. The Austrian company Böhm & Schlesinger has built two large factories in the north-east of the city: one for the production of felt blanks and hats under the Böhm Brothers brand, and the second for the manufacture of hat industrial equipment. Factories successfully worked until 1941, when they were bought by Hückel.

In parallel with three large manufactories, small hat makers worked in the city. This is a continuation of the tradition - after all, in Nový Jičin headdresses were made since the late Middle Ages (the first mention of a professional hatter in the city account book was 1506), and the Hatters Guild was officially registered by the mayor in 1630.

After the end of World War II, Czechoslovakia found itself in the zone of influence of the USSR. By 1945, there were 21 hat-making businesses in Nový Jičin (both large factories and small workshops), and this did not fully comply with the principles of a socialist economy. In addition, a significant portion of company executives were removed after the Nazis were expelled from Czechoslovakia, and serious management difficulties arose. The leadership of the Czechoslovak Republic decided to nationalize and merge all the hat manufacturers of Nový Jičin into the state-owned enterprise TONAK. The name is an abbreviation: TOvárna NA Klobouky, which simply translates from Czech as "Hat factory".

In the second half of the 20th century, hats from the new joint venture continued to be exported to 53 countries around the world, both under the new Tonak brand and under the Hückel brand already known in Europe. Tonak hats were limitedly supplied to the USSR, where they were appreciated for the high quality of felt and the elegance of workmanship.

After the Velvet Revolution and the end of the communist period in the history of the Czech Republic, Tonak was transformed into a joint-stock company and continued the 200-year tradition of hat production in Nový Jičin.

Today, Tonak is one of Europe's largest manufacturers of ready-made hats and high-quality furfelt made from rabbit, goat and beaver fur, mixed in a special ratio. The factory makes hats both under its own brand and for other brands. Chanel and Dior hat collections are made with Tonak felt. The best felt hats for Stetson Europe are made by the Tonak factory.

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The history of the Merz B. Schwanen brand is divided into two parts: historical and modern.

Balthasar Merz beim Schwanen has been producing men's underwear from cotton jersey in Germany (in the Swabian Alps) since 1911. In 2008, they were forced to close, unable to compete with cheap factories based in Asia.

The modern chapter will begin in a few years, when German designer and entrepreneur Peter Plotnicki, collector old Levi's jeans and fascinated by the early 20th century workwear aesthetics, joins it. He had a dream to make denim, but in Germany there was no tradition associated with jeans, so the production would not be authentic enough by default.

One day, in search of the perfect addition to his vintage jeans, he discovers an original early 20th century henley produced by Balthasar Merz beim Schwanen at a flea market in Berlin. Peter was fascinated by the way it was made: cut, details and quality of the material. The find took Peter and his wife Gitta to Albstadt in the Swabian Alps, where they met one of the last local textile producers, Rudolf Loder. Rudolf impressed Peter and Gitta with a whole abandoned workshop originally owned by Merz B. Schwanen. There stood, covered with dust, circular knitting machines made in different periods from the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. Rudolf Loder was very inspired by the idea of restoring the machines and starting to make quality knitwear in the traditional way. It took Rudolph a year to bring the old machines into working order, and Peter and Gitta at that time developed the first collection and even managed to agree with the heirs of Balthazar Merz to use the original trademark Merz B. Schwanen.

In 2011, the renewed brand Merz B. Schwanen, already under the leadership of Peter Plotnitcki, resumed its work, creating high-end T-shirts, henleys and sweatshirts on slow circular knitting machines made in the first half of the 20th century. The main items of their production can be bought from us: cotton loopwheeler T-shirts from the 1950s (like the ones worn by Marlon Brando in the movie "A Streetcar Named Desire") and cotton loopwheeler Henley from the 1920s, which can be found in almost any good film about the early XX century.

Merz B. Schwanen almost literally embodies the concept of "slow fashion", making expensive and high-quality things from natural, eco-friendly materials that will not go out of fashion (since they are in the plane where fashion trends do not matter).

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Foxford Woollen Mills has been located on the banks of the river Moy for over a hundred years in the town of the same name in County Mayo in the west of Ireland.

The factory was founded at the end of the 19th century by an extraordinary woman named Agnes Morrogh Bernard. She was born in a resort town in England in 1842. A few years later, her parents inherited an estate in County Kerry (Ireland), where the whole family moved. Agnes was educated at a convent school in Limerick, and then went to complete education in Paris, studying sciences and theology at a convent. There she was established in her choice of life, returned to Ireland and in Dublin joined the Irish Sisters of Charity. She took tonsure as a nun at the age of 24. In the first years after her tonsure she worked in education, but then she became more interested in administrative tasks. With her direct participation, another convent was opened in County Mayo, and with it an Industrial school for orphans.

In 1890, Agness found herself in the poor village of Foxford. By 1891, she opened another convent here and took over the protection of a nation school. Seeing the fast river Moy flowing through the village, she was eager to create a wool factory on its banks that could help improve the welfare of Foxford and provide jobs for many people. The river is needed both for processing wool (access to clean water) and for obtaining free energy from its flow. A year later (in 1892) she managed to raise 7,000 pounds, and production was launched.

The factory successfully developed and produced tweed fabrics, blankets and scarves. It became the real center of local life. The factory clock had a bell that sounded for the entire village from Monday to Friday, announcing the beginning and end of the working day. All the locals lived by this time, even the farmers who did not work at the factory. Foxford Tweeds is cited as one of the Irish treasures in perhaps the most famous work of Irish literature: the novel Ulysses by James Joyce.

Now the factory is still in the same place, in the quiet and prosperous town of Foxford, on the banks of the River Moy in County Mayo. Working conditions in the 21st century at a factory are much more humane than a hundred years ago, but still require a lot of manual human labor and attention. The standards of quality and approach to business at Foxford remain the same - the highest.

The Foxford Woollen Mills production in Tweed Hat features soft, pure lambswool scarves. From the first sight we really liked their colors, textures, and patterns. On the one hand, there is a sense of respect for traditions, on the other hand, many combinations of colors and patterns look modern and uncommon.

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McNutt of Donegal is a tiny, family-owned company that has been creating first-class woolen scarves, shawls and plaids for over 60 years in its own small production on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, in the village of Downings, in the north of Donegal county. Officially, their address looks even more picturesque: The Pier, Downings, Co.Donegal, Ireland.

The McNutt of Donegal, situated literally on the edge of the earth, manages to create scarves of exceptional quality in a non-trivial and neat design. The colours and textures of the wool have absorbed the unique nature of the Irish west coast. Bright shades are combined here with the muted colours of earth and stone, reflected in the interweaving of woolen threads of scarves. They look relevant and appropriate both on the main streets of the largest cities in the world, and amongst nature. With the heart and soul put into it, the articles of clothing are created with a sincere desire to make something that will be bringing joy to the buyer for many years. This completely coincides with the Tweed Hat's worldview, and thus, having met them at an exhibition in Dublin, we immediately realized: McNutt of Donegal should be represented in our store.

Since 1992, William McNutt, the successor of the family business, has been managing production. Using the word "tiny" at the beginning of this text, we did not exaggerate. The whole team consists of 11 people, including William.

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Located on the Mainland of the Shetland Islands in Sandness, the family-run Jamieson's of Shetland manufactures yarns and knitwear exclusively from the local Shetland sheep.

The Shetland Islands are located almost halfway between Britain and Norway and are the northernmost archipelago of Scotland. The average temperature in summer is 12-13, and in winter it is 4-5 degrees Celsius, so the locals value woolen clothes very much. The main local traditional crafts are fishing and sheep breeding. The famous Fair Isle sweaters and vests appeared here in the early 19th century, and they were named after the southernmost island of the archipelago with the same name.

The Jamiesons business was established in 1890, when Robert Jamieson opened a shop in his native Sandness village. He bought or exchanged woolen knitted clothes from local crofters for goods, and then sold them outside the islands, realizing the growing demand for authentic traditional clothing (just at the end of the 19th century, the British aristocracy began to grow an interest in the clothes of the "common people").

The next generations of the family developed the business, continuing to search their own way: Andrew (son of Robert) began to sell raw Shetland sheep wool to Scotland mills, where it was mixed with other types of yarn (then it was believed that Shetland sheep wool in its pure form was not suitable for industrial spinning).

In 1952, Bertie (son of Andrew) opened a shop of hand-knitted garments in Lerwick (the capital of the archipelago) under his own brand Jamieson's of Shetland. All things continued to be made from a mixture of Shetland wool with other varieties, but the Jamiesons still had a dream of making yarn from 100% Shetland. Bertie, together with his son Peter (the current head of the company) in 1978 managed to obtain yarn suitable for knitting and weaving from 100% wool of Shetland sheep, and in 1981 they launched their spinning production of a full cycle, including sorting, carding, washing, dyeing, spinning, and twisting - the first in the Shetland Islands. In the following years, the factory installed programmable equipment for machine knitting, which made it possible to produce sweaters and vests with a variety of traditional island patterns in the required quantity.

In 2020, the factory is still in the same place: in the village of Sandness in the west of the Mainland, it works exclusively with the yarn of Shetland sheep raised here on the Shetland Islands. The company is run by Peter Jamieson and is assisted by his son Garry, a representative of the fifth generation of the family.

The Tweed Hat team met Jamieson's of Shetland at Showcase Ireland in Dublin in January 2020. We didn't plan to order knitted garments, but we were so impressed with the aura of their clothes and the amazing approach to work of the Jamieson family, that we could not resist the desire to start working with them. We still remember our communication with Peter as a special adventure: we really wanted to record his beautiful and deep voice so that we could listen to it again later.

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Inverallan is a family-run Scottish company that has been in business since the late 1970s. They make hand-knitted clothing, headwear and accessories from authentic natural yarn, mainly from Scotland, Ireland and England.

The most striking feature is that their hand-knitted items are very noticeably different from similar machine-knitted items. They really do look like those fishermen's sweaters and clothes from the late 19th - early 20th centuries that we see in old photographs and films. They give a completely different feeling than even the highest-quality machine-knitted items. The garments are really heavy: a Medium wool sweater weighs about one and a half kilograms and is perceived more as full-fledged outerwear. They have only one drawback - the cost, it is very serious. But when you pick up or put on something from Inverallan - your heart starts beating faster, your breath catches in delight and the question of price immediately fades into the background or even third place. A real find for the ultimate connoisseurs of authenticity.

Inverallan splits its production processes between Scotland and India. Some of the work is done in India, at one of the best local hand-knitting factories with good working conditions and an ethical attitude to nature, and some in Scotland, at their production facility in Alloa, near Edinburgh and Glasgow.

The Inverallan brand produces items under its own brand, which are sold in good stores in different parts of the world (USA, Japan, Korea, France, Great Britain, Australia). They also make custom items for a small number of other brands. For example, Inverallan makes hand-knitted Aran sweaters for the legendary American brand Filson.

Since 2024, Tweed Hat has been one of the official Inverallan retailers.

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The history of the Magee 1866 brand goes back to the Victorian time when John Magee took up trading in Donegal tweed while travelling around the fairs in Donegal County and buying fabrics from local manufacturers. At that time, weavers often combined their fabrics creation with other professional activities, like fishing or farming. By 1871, John had already opened his own drapers shop in Donegal, and 16 years later his young cousin Robert Temple joined him as an apprentice. He impressed John with his skills of trade by successfully selling three caught woodcocks to a hotel owner in Ballybofey.

In 1901, Robert Temple became the Magee shop's co-owner, and nine years later he purchased the business from its founder. He struck deals with weavers who started to make fabrics designed by him, exclusively for Magee. In the World War 1, the demand for Irish wool fabrics skyrocketed for they were ideal for uniforms, being warm, dense, and sturdy. Yet by the end of the war, due to the same high demand, the home weavers' quality of manufacturing decreased. In 1918, Robert Temple decided to establish his own weaving mill in Donegal, on the Eske river, in order to control the quality and all nuances of his production.

After the War of Independence started (1919–1921), there appeared a border between Ireland and Northern Ireland that became a hindrance to the normal trade. Robert Temple realized that there is no way of breaking long-established economic relations, so he opened his warehouse in Belfast, the largest city of Northern Ireland. This allowed him continuing to sell fabrics b oth in Ireland and England.

In 1931, Howard Temple, Robert Temple's son, started working for the company at 17.

In the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, the principal buyers of fabrics were the city dwellers who ordered their clothes from bespoke tailors, and the tailors themselves. After the World War 2, the British Isles saw the massive spreading of the factory-made mass-marketed ready-made clothes. It was easy to explain, for those production facilities that had manufactured uniforms in the years of war converted to making civilian clothes. People stopped ordering their suits, preferring to buy them quickly in stores. In 1945, Magee took the challenge of the changing times, and they launched the prêt-à-porter production in Belfast, creating unusual and bright articles of Donegal tweeds, as opposed to ubiquitous gray suits. In 1960, they launched their own clothes manufacturing in Donegal as well.

In 1961, two world-renown Irish fashion designers, Sybil Connolly and Irene Gilbert, told the whole wide world of the Donegal tweed by including clothes made of it in their ladies' collections. And the very next year, Magee created their green tweed for the uniform of the largest Irish air company Aer Lingus.

In 1974, Howard's son and Robert's grandson Lynn Temple starts working for the company. He is currently the head of Magee of Donegal. Preserving the name of John Magee, the founding father of the company, in the company's name, the Temple family has been running the brand successfully for over 100 years. They have come through the hardest years of the first half of the 20th century, and are continuing their regular and harmonious development. In 2016, Magee of Donegal celebrated their 150th anniversary by opening their flagship store in downtown Dublin.

Today, the brand manufactures a large variety of classic men and women's clothing of the highest quality, made of first-grade natural materials. The Magee Weaving enterprise is also in operation that manufactures and sells tweeds.

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The Kerry Woollen Mills factory is located in the West part of Ireland, in the village of Beaufort, Kerry County, and may serve as a wonderful example of the force of traditions, and the link between generations. The official establishment date is 1760 although the first woolen mill appeared here as early as the 17th century. 

The factory deals in the complete cycle of the local sheep wool, from carding, spinning and dying the yarn to weaving and knitting the final article.

In 1904, the Eadie family purchased the business, and today it is owned and run by its fourth generation, Robert Eadie and his sons. 

Maintaining the tradition and operating in the same location as they did 300 years ago, the masters here create the real living heritage of the Irish culture with their own hands.

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The history of the Lee Valley Ireland brand started in the 1980s when Denis Hurley thought of sewing flannel shirts in an old style, similar to those worn by his own grandfather. After having designed the cut and selected right materials, he started manufacturing first batches at home, and went around the fair circuit in nearby towns to sell his shirts to both tourists and local farmers.

When he saw the demand for comfortable and beautiful granddad's shirts, he launched the manufacturing facility in 1986, in his native village of Inchigeela, Cork County, by converting the old abandoned dairy. The manufacture is still located in this village. Localizing the production in his native country is the matter of principle for Denis Hurley who runs the company even now.

The company is named after the river Lee that flows throughout the entire Cork County.

At present, the small factory manufactures various clothes in the traditional Irish style but their highlight are still those flannel grandfather's shirts as well as nightshirts and pajamas distributed by Lee Valley all over the world. Those are the articles we have decided to represent in Tweed Hat.

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Hatman of Ireland is a small family business located in the West of Ireland, in Galway County. It was established by Gerry Moran in 2003, in order to manufacture high-quality accessories, headwear, and clothes of authentic local materials.

Before establishing his own brand, Gerry had spent many years working in headgear manufacturing. This is where the name of the company came from. Hatman of Ireland does not attempt to hitch on fashionable trends, by churning out one collection after another. They produce classic objects made of traditional materials, like Donegal tweed, linen, or waxed cotton, that will never become obsolete for they are for all times.

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The McConnell wool knitwear brand was created by designer Anne Behan based on her previous project Áine (which included only womens clothing). Anne draws inspiration from traditional work and fishing Irish clothing, reworking and reimagining it for the modern wardrobe.

All things are created in their own small production in County Clare in the west of Ireland, using only natural materials (wool of merino sheep, lamb wool, alpaca, cashmere, silk) of the highest quality. The aesthetics of the brand absorbs and echoes the colors and textures of the wild, dangerous and beautiful rocky coast of the North Atlantic Ocean.

We first saw their knitted ties at our friends - the Irish Wool store, they ordered several pieces for trial in 2018. It was later revealed that McConnell no longer plans to produce ties. And then the Tweed Hat delegation was at Showcase Ireland in Dublin in January 2020, where we walked up to McConnell's booth, introduced ourselves and talked about how we liked their knitted ties. They also said that they no longer plan to do them, but still offered to leave contacts. Three months later, a package with a tie and color samples unexpectedly came to us by mail. We were very happy and made our first order with them.

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The Stormy Kromer brand history was launched in 1903 when George Kromer nicknamed "Stormy" asked his wife Ida to make a warm cap for him that a winter wind could not tear off his head. For many years, George was a railroad engineer, and this was an acute problem for him. When an engine moved fast, strong gusts of wind carried his headgear away quite frequently. George also played baseball semi-professionally, so the basis for this cap's cut became a classic baseball cap, but with the visor shortened, to reduce its windage. In order to perform this task, Ida thought of an original construction for earflaps. If necessary, they needed only one flick of a hand to become lowered and provide additional warmth, wind resistance, and protection of inclement weather conditions.

The cap turned out so fortunate that most George's colleagues wanted one for themselves. Ida received many orders. The popularity of a beautiful and convenient cap spread across America, and a number of made caps increased. By 1909, the Kromer family had their own small manufacture, and opened their first store in Kaukauna, Wisconsin. Then, up until 1945, the small company had continued to grow. They moved to larger premises twice, and had up to 30 people employed in the production. By 1955, the demand for railroad industry articles started to decrease, and the Kromers introduced new caps made of waxed cotton that were meant for working people as well, like welders and pipeliners. Their sales went up again.

In 1965, George Kromer transferred the company management to Richard Grossman, due to his age and health problems. After that, the company went into a slow decline, and their production dwindled. In 2001, the information went out that the company Stormy Kromer Mercantile will shut down. A great fan of the brand, the businessman named Bob Jacquart learned about it, and he cared so in a month the production lines were moved from Milwaukee to Ironwood, Michigan, to a textile manufacture owned by Bob. That was the beginning of a new stage in the Stormy Kromer brand's history. The company started developing new models of headwear, clothes, accessories, and bags. At the back of their caps the stitching appeared, with George Kromer's signature and the foundation year, 1903. At present all the manufacturing is still based in Ironwood, so the authenticity and quality of their articles are still very high.

These days, the Stormy Kromer headgear is the comfortable, quality, beautiful and original articles with history that attract both active leisure buffs and city dwellers who wish to wear nice-looking, practical and warm caps.

The preferred materials are traditional and natural ones, like wool, flannel, and waxed cotton. The company is so sure of the quality of their caps that they offer a lifelong warranty for them, applicable only if they are used properly, of course. Every cap has its own unique number that can be registered with the company's official website.

The Stormy Kromer cap design cannot be mixed with anything else for it has become a true American legend.

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"Drasvi Venn" is a conceptual brand founded by the artisan Ilya Kuznetsov. The brand combines art and craft, carefully preserving the memory of pre-revolutionary Russian culture. Each product contains the history and spirit of Russian artisans, continued in modern objects.

All items are divided into collections and are produced in small batches or in a single copy in the workshop on Izmailovsky Island, inside the 17th century estate. Among them are designer bags, accessories, shoes and games that continue and actualize the legacy of generations of artisans of the Russian North. Any product of "Drasvi Venn" includes hours or days of work, the individuality of the imperfect, the aesthetics of the lost Russian craft, smart simplicity.

The creator of the brand Ilya Kuznetsov has been creating leather goods for more than a quarter of a century that continue the culture of the lost leather craft and art of Russia. Each bag, shoe or accessory is the result of deep research, selection of the best materials and professional intuition - from preparing patterns to printing tags on an antique Underwood typewriter.

About the name. "Drasvi venn!" - the first thing that Russians and Norwegians said to each other in the Russian North in the 17th-18th centuries. "Drasvi" - from the Russian "hello". "Venn" - from the Norwegian "friend". And each thought that they were speaking the language of the other. This is how Russenorsk was formed - a pidgin language consisting of half Russian words, half Norwegian. Only about 400 words - enough for a dialogue of cultures.

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KOROB KOROB - clothes and sorcery. Garments are inspired by the work of handicraft tailors and at the same time - by the image, costume and heritage of the most closed caste of traditional society - sorcerers.

Clothing, which acts as an expression of a mythological worldview, and at the same time - as a magical tool, as a household artifact, as a way of conscious interaction with reality. Clothing and sorcery, clothing as sorcery.

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Brand Infundibulum is rethinking the traditions of Russian and European men's clothing by adapting them to the modern world, but stays connected to the roots. With his collections, the creator of the brand, designer Ilya Varegin, answers the question - what would men's clothing be today if its evolution went in a different direction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

The brand produces two capsule collections per year (fall-winter and spring-summer), all garments are produced in Russia in limited runs from rare fabrics. The size range usually consists of two sizes: M / L and L / XL.

In 2022, the Infundibulum brand finished its work, and its continuation is the KOROB KOROB brand, exclusively presented in Russia in Tweed Hat.

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Since 1968, based in the heart of England, Birmingham, the Oxford Blue company has been specializing in making quality clothing in a traditional English country and hunting style. Preference is given to time-tested classic models and natural materials with long history: waxed cotton, flannel, tweed, corduroy. The factory also makes clothes for other brands under contract. It's very important for Oxford Blue that the prices on their apparel stay moderate. Of course, given the fact that high-quality materials are used, and most of the production is located in England.

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Mullingar Pewter is a small Irish manufacturer of pewter drinkware, souvenirs, household items, and interior decorations. The company was founded in 1974 by Paddy Collins, who sought to revive the ancient craft of making pewter utensils. Still based in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland, it is now headed by the founder’s son, Peter Collins. Most of Mullingar Pewter’s 16 employees have been with the company for many years and are adept at all the intricacies of pewter casting and finishing.

Pewter utensils have been known in Europe since the 12th century, and Mullingar Pewter has been inspired by antique items in both form (recreating old designs alongside its own original ones) and craftsmanship—but not raw materials. That is because in medieval times, the alloy known as pewter contained lead, while modern pewter is almost entirely (about 90%) tin, with added copper and antimony. This composition of metals is completely safe and does not interreact with food or drink (including strong liquors, which makes it an excellent choice for flasks).

We met Peter Collins at an exhibition in Dublin and, after a bit of deliberation, settled on an order for Tweed Hat that included cast-pewter flasks in various shapes, pint tankards, and chained pocket watches.

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