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Essentials
The Red Hat Factory hand knit beanie style has multiple sources of inspiration, but one sticks just a little bit above the crowd. The Steve Zissou hat from Life Aquatic. The film is a study in red hats.
News Reel
Taking an extra side job didn’t leave much extra time for developing the Red Hat Factory brand second quarter of 2020. And then we slid directly into a sweet long vacation. But the vacation brought new clarity.
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When my brother in law came into my apartment while I was drying wool socks after laundry, he made me realize something. Not everyone has a basket of 25 pairs of wooly socks right inside the door.
People and Their Passions
For me it started with my dad painting acrylic pictures during his stay in rehab. He struggled with depression at this time and was surrounded by other people fighting depression and trauma. I was 10 at the time.
People and Their Passions
It was exciting to see how the monkeys live and interact with each other and with the human visitors to the Temple. Being in the midst of 700 monkeys, there was no shortage of great moments to photograph. The opposite was truer — I missed a lot of great opportunities, and this turned out to be the biggest challenge of this area.
People and Their Passions
We managed to raise enough money to order 286 pairs of raw denim jeans from a small factory in Italy. These sold out very fast, and from then on we had to learn, mostly the hard way, how to manage a brand. From design and production, to sales and PR, which we didn't have any previous experience of.
News Reel
Slowly by slowly the family of beanies, knit caps, or toques are growing. Whatever you want to call them, they are what they are — a long thread of colored wool masterfully knit together into the shape of a head.
People and Their Passions
One of the most significant reasons I appreciate chainstitch embroidery is its undeniable authenticity. Hand crank chainstitch embroidery machines date all the way back to 1865 with Cornely’s Machine A.
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“Old lady advice” or — the less flattering translation — “hag advice” is a saying or proverb that has gone from generation to generation. No one knows from when or where it originated, but everyone has heard it. A good example came early this year, when my Grandmother suddenly exclaimed, as we were dining Norwegian lapskaus: “There's a difference between daddy and the cat.”
People and Their Passions
What makes me love natural material is the way it adapts to the seasons and weather. Cools when it's hot, heats when it's freezing, transports sweat away from the body, and keeps the heat even when rain has soaked it, and isolates well when you use air gap space and the multi-layer principle.
