Panama Hat articles from the web

[HungaryTom]

Making Panama Hats: The People and the Process

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfjR_t7cyMU&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl_ZhsoM0GQ&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEe5oUooG18&feature=relmfu

Panama hat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XOrG8uxObs&feature=related

The Genuine Panama Hat (Montecristi Hat), a Jewel of Ecuador
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWMsDcDU2_o&feature=related

Panama Hat: A Film by Omar Burneo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdKr1QXpEVE&feature=related

 

[HungaryTom]

Olympic Optimo

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/225/lightgreysbpeakcopy9ai.jpg/

Thanks for organising and hosting the 2012 Olympic games!!!

(Image source: thelondonlounge.net)

 

[jayinhk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcPuVin61yc

This hatter lost his voice from chemicals used in hat production: I believe his hats were considered among the finest in Cuenca. Looks like he was a very sprightly guy! He's passed on, but his family have taken over the business.

 

[oldhat]

Hard to find first edition Panama-A Legendary Hat large hard cover "coffee table" book for sale.
Comprehensive history of Panama hats with focus on the Montecristis. Great color photographs.
No longer in print.
See ad in classified or contact me with questions.

 

[HungaryTom]

Simon Espinal, the best weaver alive, 2007
http://www.flickr.com/photos/roundearthmedia/4116667742/in/set-72157622679944561/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/roundearthmedia/4116668246/in/set-72157622679944561/

Raul Holguin Alarcon
http://alum.mit.edu/pages/sliceofmit/files/2011/09/OF012989_510.jpg
http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000NrV_t_xhWC8/s/850/850/Pamanam-Hat-making-Ecuador.jpg

 

[HungaryTom]

THE GREAT GATSBY (1923-1974-2012)

http://media.photobucket.com/image/great gatsby/antobrien/books/great-gatsby.jpg

http://media.washtimes.com/media/co....jpg?73b8e21685896c3f2859310aaa5adb253919b641 - Panama???

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mq3W1QflcU4/TEH_cIQkEbI/AAAAAAAAD4w/YX6ysj2agBk/s1600/gatsby03e.jpg

http://drop.ndtv.com/albums/ENTERTAINMENT/firstlook-2012/the-great-gatsby.jpg

PANAMA JACK
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6qkaecgNm...PA/s1600/Panama_Jack_Sunglasses.330111825.jpg

NORMANN ROCKWELL
http://uploads2.wikipaintings.org/images/norman-rockwell/fishing.jpg!Blog.jpg

ESTES DANA
http://www.old-picture.com/american-legacy/005/pictures/Estes-Dana.jpg

MISCELLANEOUS

http://www.isomatic.co.uk/images/PHNOJB@W_Moors.jpg


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V-vy8pJtu...1600/bob+dylan+with+guitar+sitting+in+car.jpg

http://travel.nationalgeographic.co...5PWutchIbm-XWM_DriiB0wd5xYIIT1CMIkmk6hLsN4Seg

http://www.glam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Sentebale4.jpg

http://mexfiles.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/novarro-rowlan-1930.jpg

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3ixj34yXb1qm4rc3.jpg

http://clothesonfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Hannibal_Anthony-Hopkins_Panama-hat.bmp.jpg

http://l.yimg.com/ea/img/-/110620/c...g?x=400&q=80&n=1&sig=H2bkANMupUQs38ba8JltmA--

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/08/23/article-0-14A715DD000005DC-617_634x615.jpg

http://www.contactmusic.com/pics/le...-nolte-wears-a-stylish-panama-hat_3589951.jpg

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM QUALITY PANAMA HAT
http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ci/web-highlight/1992.33.41_CP1.jpg

THOMAS CORINTH W. PANAMA HAT (1918) HARVARD MUSEUM
http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/17916212?width=560&height=560

 

[HungaryTom]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Vasili_Vereshchagin,_1902.jpg
Vasili Vereschagin, Russian Painter

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

^^^^^^

 

[HungaryTom]

The Prince
http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/ima...ad-a-troubled-relationship-with-the-media.jpg
http://blog.sight-management.com/wp...-Edwards-for-Ralph-Lauren-Purple-Label_05.jpg

and the pauper
http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000Bme9doKc11k/s/650/650/Weaving-Panama-Hat-Ecuador.jpg
http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2011/10/panama20hats.jpg

Mark Twain, 1908
http://www.neh.gov/files/humanities/articles/mark_twain_pic__henry_rogers_ma2011_1000px.jpg

 

[randooch]

Great picture, Tom!

 

[Rabbit]

That's a publicity still, isn't it? Or would a weaver be seen working on a hat in full sunlight, away from the shack, and without a supporting pole?

Great picture, Tom!

 

[randooch]

Sure, go ahead and ruin it for me!

(If you have something to tell me about the Easter Bunny, I'm not listening.)

 

[Rabbit]

lol

I know, nobody likes a smart sitting device. The temptation was too much, though.

 

[delectans]

That's a publicity still, isn't it? Or would a weaver be seen working on a hat in full sunlight, away from the shack, and without a supporting pole?

Sure, go ahead and ruin it for me!

(If you have something to tell me about the Easter Bunny, I'm not listening.)

Randall, chin up, my good man! While the breathtaking picture likely was taken for PR purposes, it almost certainly depicts a highland Indian or Chola of Azuay or Cañar Province, weaving a Brisa-weave Cuenca 'en plein air'. Note the coarse paja.

The thousands of(mostly) women weavers of these provinces are seldom separated from the hats on which they work, weaving in the fields, on the bus, wherever they may be, and at all hours of the day, producing tens of thousands of these coarse hats which they sell in the markets of Azogues, Biblián, or Cuenca itself.

A first-person narrative of the straw market at Azogues, in Tom Miller's excellent "The Panama Hat Trail: A Journey From South America": "Dozens of barefoot women sat behind piles of straw, laughing at jokes told in a raspy, high-pitched Quichua cackle. The straw in Azogues cost between two and three and a half cents a tallo, the thinner and more uniform paja at the upper end of the scale. The women who sell straw to weavers, usually weavers themselves, earn about half a penny above cost for each tallo. On a good market day they might make a dollar or more. During the rest of the week they often sit in their doorways at home, weaving hats while waiting for others to come and buy straw they've laid out on the sidewalk before them. Weavers who get just five tallos for coarse hats often buy enough for three or more hats at a time..."

They use the same paja toquilla from the Carludovica palmata in weaving their hats, but in many ways they are a world away from the weavers patiently creating their incomparable masterpieces in the thatched-roof huts of the dusty little villages of Manabi Province.

 

[Rabbit]

Great info, Al! Thanks very much for sharing.

 

[delectans]

The pleasure was mine, Nik. :yo:

Besides, I could not bear watching Randall's belief in the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and the Tooth Fairy utterly shattered!

 

[alanfgag]

Great info, Al! Thanks very much for sharing.

+1!

 

[Panamabob]

That's a publicity still, isn't it? Or would a weaver be seen working on a hat in full sunlight, away from the shack, and without a supporting pole?

I've seen women walking around Azuay and Canar provinces while weaving...

I'll add that Cuenca hats, in their top weaves, rival the equal weave in Montecristi. Also, the Peruvian family we've just found, weaves just as well as in Montecristi, yet their hats are more stout/hardy. They won't weave anything over 400 weaves per inch, so I'll have to increase the bonus $.

 

[Rabbit]

I've seen women walking around Azuay and Canar provinces while weaving...

They truly seem inseparable from the hats they're weaving... thank you for the info, Robert.

 

[HungaryTom]

Dear gentlemen, thanks for all the nice input here with Roaring Lion photos:
http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/sZnNwZyaGf8/mqdefault.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BH_xJY1dU...CCl4/s1600/roaring_lion_carnival_long_ago.jpg