We are very proud and commemorated to percentage the our family’s subculture and ecuador’s most well-known craft, the noble and conventional art of toquilla straw hat weaving, with hat fanatics from round the world.
Our craftsmans take incredible pride in their work, with their central cores hand-woven into each hat we convey. The greater part of our straw hats originate from neighborhood craftsmans in Cuenca, globally famous for the fantastic weaving of its Panama hats.
Weaving
Panama hat weaving is a house industry completed in the straightforward homes of customary nation people in the areas of Manabi and Azuay in Ecuador. It is an exceptional expertise passed on from age to age. These specialists and ladies can deliver a hat in a couple of days. In any case, the best, from the towns of Biblian and Montecristi can take up to four months to weave.
The best weavers work just by the light of the moon or when the sky is cloudy. Always dunking their sharp pointed fingers in water, they split the fiber razor thin, and with all the virtuosity of a turning wheel, plait ring in the wake of ring of palm into texture so delicate and thick that it meets silk.
The best quality Panama have a plush, rich smooth surface in which the weave is scarcely discernible, however in the event that held up to the light, a winding of rings will be seen spreading over out from the pinnacle of the crown.
Once completed, the woven hats are sold at the market by the weavers, chiefly to bigger Panama hat merchants and organizations who can finish the subsequent stages of the procedure.
The factory process
The neighborhood production lines and wholesalers assume a vital part to the Panama hat process, frequently less talked about, as it is they who set up the semi-completed hats, prepared to be sold to the global markets and guaranteeing the workmanship of every Panama is appeared to its absolute best.
Right off the bat they are quality checked and arranged by fineness of weave. The overabundance straw is trimmed off by an edge expert called an azocadora, who guarantees the hats don't shred. The hats are then washed and faded or potentially colored in expansive vats, to give the straw a brought together shading. Once the caps have been sundried out in the Ecuadorean daylight, the regular oils of the Paja Toquilla are pounded out to make the straw delicate and glossy, and afterward the edges are cut and appropriately wrapped up. At last, the hats are then squeezed delicately to recoup the first hat (hood) shape and marked with 'fabricado en Ecuador' - denoting their validness. At exactly that point, as Genuine Panama hats, are they prepared to be sold for fare to milliners and hat producers all around, where they are formed/blocked and trimmed for the shopper.
Shaping
The Panama hoods (incomplete hat shape cones) can be blocked either by hand or on extensive warmed steel squares, which press the hat into the coveted shape. The overflow is then cut and trimmed, and an inward band (cushion, for example, cowhide or texture is sewn in to make it to the right size. To complete off the Panama hat, the external trim or band is included as required.
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