The fur trade brought newcomers to the Canadian North-West in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The English and then the French were here to secure beaver skins for the European hat-making ...

The 1830s were fraught times for hatters everywhere. Fashionable men clung to the beaver hat for centuries, but in the early 1800s that fashion was threatened by over-hunting the chubby rodents.

An curved arrow pointing right. Flint and Port Hat Company is a one-craftsman custom-hat shop in Bainbridge, Georgia. The hats are made by hand by owner and milliner Eldrick Jacobs and take up to four ...

Stellar + Sun Hat Co. owner Sabreena Urness said her hatmaking hobby “snowballed” into a business. Urness creates custom hats made out of American rabbit and beaver felt. Stephanie Zappelli ...

A hat belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte when he was French emperor has sold for a record of nearly two million euros at a French auction. The black beaver felt hat went for 1.932 million euros ($2.1 ...