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Gould Studios/ALMA HATS is currently a location to house a variety of concepts and productions. Primarily I am focused on presenting items here that I have created by hand. These include the majority of the hats that you see in the shop section of this site. Including bespoke designs, and one of a kind ready to wear beaver blend fur felt hats, as well as the paintings on canvas within the galleries.
ALMA HATS: Each hat is made at my home studio in Aptos, California, in Santa Cruz County, USA. The hats are produced using the finest materials that I have available, while being dedicated to sustainable sourcing methods. Thus all my beaver blend fur felt hat bodies are made from material originally Felted half a century ago in most cases.
I use traditional millinery techniques to produce the shapes you see, including steam forming the felt over a wood block called a 'bashing block', ironing or 'pouncing' the brim and crown, sanding or and lightly burning off stray fibers, hand creasing the crown, sewing in the sweatband, tacking in the liner and designing the banding.