Feltmere

The whole hat trade, opening soon

Hat making supplies, western hats and the machinery behind them.

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A hatter steaming a felt over the bench in a dark workshop, the steam lit from the side

Feltmere is a new marketplace where independent hatters, supply houses and machinery dealers will sell direct to hat shops, western stores and makers.

The departments

In the order the trade works.

  1. Two blocked felt blanks, rust and green, on a worn wooden floor beside a brim cutter

    Felt bodies

    Wool and fur felt hoods, and the blocked blanks a shop finishes itself.

  2. A maker pressing a grey felt over a round wooden brim block with an iron, a crown block waiting beside her on the bench

    Blocks & forms

    Crown blocks, brim flanges and the forms a shape is pulled over.

  3. Hands marking the band of a burgundy felt with a wood-burning pen at a workshop bench

    Ribbons & trims

    Grosgrain and petersham, bands and bindings, and the detail burnt in by hand.

  4. A grey felt hung on an iron rack of tongs and tools in a dark forge, lit by one window

    Tools

    Stretchers, tollikers, steamers and brushes, for the bench and the rack.

  5. A worn brown felt with a turquoise band held in a maker's hands

    Hats

    Finished western felt, from the people who shape it.

A rider leading a white horse along a ridge under hazy mountains

From the felt to the finished brim, in one place.

Eight cream and black cowboy hats pegged to a wooden wall in hard raking light

Before it opens

Bodies, blocks, bands and brims. One place to buy them.

Tell me when it opens

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