THE ACADEMY / ASPIRING HATTERS
THE ACADEMY / ASPIRING HATTERSThe Academy.
Learn to see the structure beneath the silhouette. Study felt hatmaking with Jorge La Sombra.
FROM ADMIRER TO MAKER
Come closer
to the bench.
The finished hat is only the beginning of the conversation. Aspiring Hatters is the House’s learning community: a place to explore tools, materials and the decisions that give a hat its form.
Join the community, explore the available instruction and choose your next step in the craft. Current lesson access and pricing are shown in the Academy.
Explore Aspiring HattersThe maker’s library
Tools, patterns and experiments have a place in the House too. Follow The Dispatch’s maker stories for notes from the workshop as that library develops.
Receive the maker’s Dispatch