WEDNESDAY - AUGUST 29, 2012 - YOUNTVILLE, CA - A selection of classic hats available at Montecristi Panama Hats which was recently opened by Elba Mercedes Anda her husband Fabian Anda, at V ...

Brent Black and his Panama Hat Company of the Pacific are selling handmade hats from Montecristi, Ecuador for the modest price of $25,000 – modest in that one of their cherished caps fetched ...

Montecristi, with its age-old hat-weaving traditions and tiny output, remains the spiritual home of the Panama hat. Locals have been weaving extraordinarily fine hats out of toquilla straw for ...

He had traveled there to find an authentic Panama hat, a centuries-old Ecuadorian handicraft, just to be clear. Black had recently read Tom Miller's book, The Panama Hat Trail —part praise ballad, ...

Through his Panama Hat Company of the Pacific, the ad executive-turned-headwear guru offers handmade hats from Montecristi, the town in Ecuador that is the true home of the classic “Panama ...

A prized possession in the store today is a Montecristi Panama hat that is more than 90 years old. It was one of the gifts given to Chuck and Conseulo by Consuelo's father, Victor Soria, when the ...

Simon Espinal has woven many fine hats over the years. Now 47 years old, he's been weaving Panamas ever since he was a boy. He was taught by his father, Senovio, who was regarded as one of the ...

Panama hat weaver Simon Espinal hikes into the jungle, in the canton of Montecristi, Ecuador, to collect shoots of the toquilla palm, which contain the straw used to weave the headgear.