A friend sent me this website recently with a message. “I just saw that my friend’s wife from high school started in Vermont Swan & Stone Millinery in Vermont and thought I’d share. Love the felt. Women owned businesses!”
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Swan & Stone Millinery is a collective of six sheep and two artisans. Together they grow hats on their Vermont farm. Sam Stone, the farmer and felt maker, uses farm-raised wool, local alpaca, mohair and other natural fibers. Nora Swan, the designer and milliner, works with the unique properties of each felt to create hats, fascinators and other whimsical wearables. They use antique hat forms, vintage trims and feathers from the farm and beyond. “What we can’t grow ourselves, we source as close to home as possible. Although our hats begin in a pasture, they transcend the farm in style and artistry.”
They begin by blocking pure merino wool hoods on antique wooden hat forms, shaping many of our unique brims by hand. “The beautiful Vermont landscape that surrounds us influences our designs and we trim many of our hats with locally found or grown objects (metal, roots, feathers and vintage fabrics).”
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The hats speak for themselves and to many of us looking for style, whimsey and warmth in this cold winter season.
And their collection of fascinators has a individual style that will compliment your own.
They also offer a brilliant of assortment of charming chapeaus and made with the same attention to detail and craftsmanship.
My personal favorite is the Vermont Nehru Earflap Hat which can be worn so many different ways.
I also find this Felt Beret very fetching and it come in a wonderful assortment of colors and patterns.
And if you are south this winter, you will be glad to know Swan & Stone designs a collection of Sun and Rain hats.
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