Show us your fur hats and any history on the fur as to where/how harvested.



Custom dark beaver hat handmade from an Ontario, Canada trapper!



Muskrat trapper hat from 'rats I caught on Spider Flowage years back in Northern Wisconsin.



Female fisher hat from a conibear trap set on a leaning pole with a balsam bough covered beaver carcass as bait.



Raccoon hat as every trapper and country boy at heart should have a raccoon hat!



Red fox hat harvested from Boulder Junction, Wisconsin area with my 16 gauge shotgun. Spotted him sitting on his haunches on a cold January morning behind my deep woods country home. While wearing only my long johns and slippers, I deftly slipped out the back door and made a quality shot!

Let's see you fur hats!

Chris

Had this hat made from my own fur.

That looks like a very warm hat. Nice beaver put up too.

Chris

Heres a few, some my own and some I made for sale.

Great looking hats Boco and Victor#0 I bet those keep the kiddos warm! Thanks for sharing.

Chris

Boco is the last fur hat Lynx?

Badger hat made for a friend. Hides from MTP. Beadwork by me.



Raccoon hat, from my first catch.

Stunning! Love the bead work!

Chris

My Badger hat

Another nice badger hat. I need one of those but being from Wisconsin they are protected. Perhaps I will buy one at a trappers convention.

Chris

Siberian Tiger.
Me and my buddy Vladimir P snared it at his Trapping Camp a few years back.
(JK) its a beaver and wolf skin hat put together in a technique called leathering I modified by substituting beaver strips for the leather.

Chris

Lynx hats



Fall(longhair) beaver hat (fur crashing technique)


The kids always kept warm in their fur hats in winter back in the day.

A lynx hat is on my bucket list too. Very nice work Boco.

Chris

Thanks Chris.

This coonskin cap made from a really nice coon I caught mid-winter, except it had that rub in the middle of the back. I figured it would get downgraded at the buyer, but it was otherwise the nicest one I'd ever caught so I had it tanned. Then eventually had a hat made out of it, and had them feature the rub front and center because it was the whole reason I kept it in the first place.



This one is made from a red fox caught about 100 yards from where I got the coon in the first pic, with ear flaps made of muskrat caught on the bay of Green Bay. I've since added some turkey spurs to the ear flap strings.

Both hats made by Wild Things Fur in La Farge, WI.

Looking good tlguy.

Chris

On Christmas couple years ago we got all grandkids a fur hat. Wife and I have Otter and Raccoon Troopers

oh now I remember that Cool post

Great photo of the grandkids John!

Chris

Little Miss Aalaiya loves her mink hat and shawl

She looks like royalty Turtledale.

Chris

Here are some of my hats, all were made from my fur that was tanned by Tubari and sewn by Glacier Wear. coyote, skunk, and beaver.

Nice hats!!
Very talented for those that made their own.
I need to look into the companies you all used for some of them.

Love seeing the shots of hats .

This beaver hat was made from a nice college kid years ago . He used to be on the forum here. Dont know what happened to him. He was making nice hats out of different fur he caught to help his expenses in college. This hat is the warmest I could have , for the coldest temps on earth, if needed.


This is a crystal fox halo hat, that my friend Judy Comstock made and sells at the NTA's. Being a halo hat, with no top crown , it is a beautiful casual dress hat for cool rooms or outside. The colours in it are wonderful, and the red fur areas match my hair well. Shown here , wearing my custom made plucked and sheared beaver coat, with my horse riding friend in her shearling lambs wool .


My most prized hat I'll evah have. Marten , custom picked hides and designed by me. Caught by T4Ever , an amazing trapper in S.E. Alaska. Every hide is a different colour, with the orange hide in back, to accent the three glossy dark tails. People say he traps among the nicest marten they've ever seen. Temple , also in Alaska , built it just right to my specs. This is not a hat I wear out in rough weather or working. This is for best dressed winter events, casual wear. It is too nice to risk tearing up working out in the cold doing work. The flaps are two toned on the top and bottoms, depending on if they are down or tied up. The tassels are made using the lovely orange bling from the throat patches. I couldn't stand to let those bright oranges and yellows go to waste.

Here is my badger hat that I bought a Canadian badger skin and had Glacier Wear make for me. Badger are protected here in Indiana.

Thats a beauty badger hat flipper.

Thanks, I really like the hats you make too.

A lot of really awesome hats!

Anyone ever make hats from your black bear hide? I’ve been brainstorming

Go Pack Go!

Is there a good book out there that anyone would recommend for fur sewing projects?
Coon ear warmer I made for my daughter (not her in the pic,lol).

Amazing hats one and all. I greet and open the door at church a couple Sunday's a month so I always wear a different fur hat during the cold weather season. Very well received by all the patrons. Lots of questions as to what type of fur and who made them which I always gladly answer.

Chris

Chris are you practicing for St Peters job in the future?

Nope. Just a sinner like all the rest of us.

Chris

Another nice badger hat!

Chris

Nice raccoon caught on a DP attached to a drowning chain that I had Wild Things make into a hat for me. I always get compliments when I where it and most people want to touch it.

Very nice hats all.
Flipper, that badger hat looks incredible!.
Sharron, that Marten hat looks great. Also, you have beautiful red hair.

The wife and I went to the Elkhart Lake, WI Old World Christmas Market today. I wore my raccoon hat and she wore a bobcat headband. We both got lots of compliments on them. There were 2 booths selling fur hats and mittens, etc. They were pretty busy places.

Muskrat wins the prize .Simple not too warm ,could wear most of the winter .

From yesterday

Here is one I made the other night.

Here is my hat model!

Wow, some beautiful hats shown here. Here I am checking traps and tip ups on my bicycle wearing my fisher hat. That is a Walleye flopping on the ice in the background.

Nice hat and quality fish as per usual Hutchy! Very stylish hat Kyle and the mitts will keep you warm no matter how cold the outside temperature. Now that is a throwback photo for sure MnMan.

Chris

Did you sew up those hats yourself Hobbie Trapper? They look great!

Chris

Caught ‘em, tanned ‘em and sowed ‘em. Thanks.

Kyle k. AWESOME HATS!

That is an awesome combination of talents.

Chris

Let’s not get carried away. If I was in the wild and needed to do all that to stay afloat I would have froze to death before I finished. lol

I need to find Someone to build me a Brown Bear hat ( I had my whole hide tanned ) Taxidermist used the front half.

Green Bay that's a Awesome Hat .what's the Style called?

great hats guys, anyone have a place to get patterns.?