Hand-crafted, custom-fitted fur felt hats built to last a lifetime and beyond. Designed to fit your unique style, head shape, and physical proportions. Your new headwear is guaranteed to look and feel good on you - a stylistic expression of your unique, rebel soul.
Wear daily,
live rebellious,
let your soul shine.
Heirloom Quality
100% handcrafted using only the finest materials
Heirloom Quality
100% handcrafted using only the finest materials
Rebel Soul hats are made to last for decades, of a quality that may be handed down to the next generation much the way one might hand down their watch, jewelry, or fine leather goods. We use only 100% fur felt hat bodies and will never use wool or wool blends. Each hat is blocked from a raw felt on a block specific to your head size and shape to ensure a perfect fit and proportions. Our sweatbands are made of high-quality, soft, vegetable-tanned leather, ensuring their lasting durability and antimicrobial properties. Each sweatband is reeded and belled to ensure a silky-smooth fit and to help prevent excessive stretch or shrinkage over time, ensuring you'll always have a perfect fitting hat. Liners are made of silk and high-quality satin and hand-selected or custom-made to fit the style and character of each unique hat. Every stitch is sewn by hand, with pride, using high-quality, durable threads. When you wear a Rebel Soul hat you are wearing a piece of my artwork, a piece of my rebellious soul, a functional accessory crafted with passion and uncompromising attention to detail.
The Art Of The Hat
Find your style:
From cowboy hats to traditional fedoras and anything in between, we can design the right hat for you. We make hats for men and women, adults and children. We make hats for all occasions and to suit most any style. We believe a hat should be a staple in everyone's closet and we believe there is a hat for everyone.
People often believe that they don't look good in hats, that hats have to be uncomfortable because of their x, y, or z head characteristics, or that any non-ballcap simply doesn't fit their style. We would say that person simply hasn't experienced a custom hat. A custom fitted hat that is designed with your unique proportions in mind, will be comfortable, and will look good on you. Set up a consultation and let us prove it to you.
We will ask a lot of questions and make suggestions during the consultation. We will try to get to know you, what you're interested in, and why you're interested in getting a hat made. We'll want to know how and where you plan to wear your hat - a date night build is likely to differ significantly from a camping hat. We'll ask about your style - are you jeans and a t-shirt, suit and tie, a little grunge or hipster? For the ladies - do you wear a lot of dresses, what about jewelry - do you mostly wear gold or silver tones, diamonds or turquoise? Do you spend most of your time in the woods or out in the open sun? What colors do you usually where? What type of belt, boots, and watch strap do you tend to wear most often? We'll ask all of these questions, and more, so that we can create a hat best suited to your lifestyle and unique sense of style. We'll always give you honest, professional advice as we finalize your build. Our hope is that we leave the consultation with a clear and aligned vision for your next hat. After that, we'll stay in communication with you throughout the build to ensure each decision fits your expectations along the way.
A few examples of our work can be found throughout this page and on the portfolio page, but your options are not limited to what you see here. Every custom hat will be different and we take pride in making bespoke pieces unique to each individual. We are always happy to work from an inspiration photo, and just as happy to take as much artistic and professional liberty as you give us.
Whether it's your first or fifteenth, it will be our genuine pleasure to share a slice or our artistic soul with you as we make your next hat.
Customization
Every hat is a unique canvas. We make your vision a reality with care and artisanal precision. Share your ideas and let us help bring them to life. Below are just a few of the choices we'll make together as we conceptualize your build.
In addition to the below, there are dozens of options for the color of felt used for your hat. From bone white, black, shades of brown, pink, purple, blue, green and red, and many colors in between, we can almost always source a felt color that will work with your vision. We'll share options with you during the consultation.
We aim to create headware that will stand the test of time. We want you to wear your new hat liberally, without having to baby it or worry about it loosing shape or getting crushed beyond repair. For this reason, we will never use wool or wool-blended felts. Rather, our hats are crafted from fine fur felts - generally from rabbit, European hare, beaver, nutria, or a blend of the above. On rare occasions, we can source blends which incorporate rare chinchilla fur, making them supremely soft. While fur type makes a considerable difference in a hat's capabilities and limitations, it is difficult for most people to see or feel the differences. We'll help you understand these differences before deciding on the right felt for you.
Depending on the intended use, in addition to the type of furs used, we will recommend different felt weights (thickness and density of the fibers) and levels of stiffness. We'll recommend a heavier weight, stiffer felt for a working cowboy hat than we would for an evening fedora, for instance.
Our base hats will be made using 100% rabbit fur felt. Rabbit/hare fur felt is quite durable, soft, and holds its shape well. Rabbit is a bit less soft than beaver or nutria and is less water resistant, albeit still plenty capable if you get caught in a rain shower. We recommend pure rabbit felt for fashion hats or hats that you will wear only occasionally (like for date nights or dressing up), or for someone who is budget conscious and simply wants a great hat for a great price.
Beaver felt is among the finest materials a hat can be crafted from-- truly a buy-it-for-life material. Beaver fur felt is superior to rabbit for several reasons, but beaver fur is more difficult to make and procure and is generally quite a bit more expensive than rabbit fur. Because beavers are aquatic creatures, their fur contains water-repelling oils. Beaver fur is also barbed, allowing it to lock and fuse together more tightly in the felting process than other fur types. This makes beaver felt much more dense and structurally strong, making it thinner and lighter-weight than rabbit fur while also being more resistant to snow and water. Beaver fur is also a bit softer to the touch than rabbit.
We can also discuss blended fur felts with you. Our preferred blend for working hats, for example, is a 50:50 beaver:rabbit blend due to its durability and feel while staying more price-friendly than pure beaver.
The crown is the heart of a hat's character. We offer expert hand-shaping for all traditional creases. From the classic cattleman to the iconic gus to the modern teardrop or tres dues folded fedora and anything in between, we will can make it happen for you while ensuring the height, taper, and crease proportions are perfectly balanced for your facial features.
Most of our standard men's designs will have a finished crown height between 4 and 4 3/4 inches in the front, but we can customize a block specific to you if a taller or shorter crown is more appropriate.
Our women's hats generally have a finished crown height between 3 1/2 and 4 1/4 inches in the front. As with our men's hats, we can adjust the starting block as needed to achieve a shorter or higher finished profile as appropriate.
A hat's brim gives it much of its utility, but also plays a significant role in how to hat will look on you. Getting the brim size and shape right is critical to crafting the perfect hat for you.
From 1 1/2 inch stingy brins to 4 1/2 inch cowboy styles, we can craft the right brim for you that is suited for your intended use and appropriately proportioned to look good on you. We find that brims between 2 1/2 and 4 inches are ideal for most individuals.
We can create flat brims, flanged brims, pencil curls, wide, relaxed western styles, and brims with cranked up, rowdy sides. We'll even cut out a ballcap style brim for you if that is your vision. Whether you like crisp hard brim creases or soft, rolling lines, we've got you covered.
We can also bind your brim in tonal or contrasting ribbon. We hand sew our brim bindings, pulling and stretching them with every stitch to ensure they are as taught as possible, providing additional brim stability and an extra pop of style. We can match your brim binding with your band ribbon, or not, it's all up to you.
Our hat bands are always handmade and one of a kind. We generally default to a traditional grosgrain or petersham ribbon with a traditional bow style of your choosing, but we can work with silk fabric, denim, cording, leather, and many other materials to achieve the look and feel you have envisioned.
We use only the finest quality ribbons for our hat bands and brim bindings. The ribbons we use can be difficult to source and are often imported from Europe and made of silk, cotton and rayon blends to ensure they patina gracefully and remain serviceable over time. We can create various bow styles ranging from a simple slip knot to a butterfly bow with tails on the brim.
Leather bands are generally sourced on a per-order basis allowing us to work with most any material you can envision, including exotics like alligator, ostrich, or snakeskin. We will consult with you about final style and finishing details for your leather band.
Let your Rebel Soul Shine - let's create your signature style
Every hat is a story waiting to be told. We will take as much time as we need to get to know you, measure your head, and discuss your vision for a custom-fitted piece that will last for generations. Let us help you find your unique style.
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