Description
This is the latest hat design I’ve done and is (roughly) inspired by the Red Mage hat from the Final Fantasy games.
It has a very unique design and is simple but sophisticated in its simplicity. Get a complex look that you can craft in minutes using only leather and rivets.
Pattern is infinitely resizable, scale accordingly when printing. Default 100% scale should be roughly 22″.
Recommended crafting medium should be dense/firm veg tanned leather (ideally somewhere in the 4 to 7 oz range)
Video Tutorial In Progress
I made this one from a section of Catalina Leather from Tandy... I think it was just about the perfect weight for this project! Plus the Catalina is already finished, so it took some steps out of the process...
10/10 as usual from Prince Armory Patterns!
If you want to make a simple hat with little to no effort, then this is a good pattern to dip your toes into the world of leathercraft and armour making.
Thank you Prince Armory for your support and for making a wonderful pattern.
There were a few extra lines on the top part of the hat, and now that I've built it, I realize which ones I wish I had followed, but it wasn't clearly obvious. I would call the pattern beginner friendly with the caveat that riveting the top especially was extremely frustrating, but maybe there are some tricks the video will show that I didn't know to use. Overall, I spent about 14-15 hours on this build, although the bulk of it was extra design work and hopefully the riveting will be quicker next time (that took up about 3 hrs for me, mostly figuring stuff out and operator errors I'm sure. Not used to riveting such 3D objects.)
I would love if PAA would give size options, brief written instructions, and printer-formatted patterns like many other (cheaper) sellers do, but c'est la vie. An option with stitching holes instead of rivets would also be fantastic. I recognize these are pretty easy things to DIY, but for the price of the pattern, I would have hoped it to be more user-friendly. Overall though, it made a beautiful product, and I will be making more of this pattern and others from PAA.