Rabbit Felt is smooth and durable.
WOOL, RABBIT, BEAVER OR STRAW:
I also offer a standard Wool Felt made from sheep wool and Beaver Felt and Straw for summer or more tropical climates.See other listings for ordering.
LINING:
Black or White silk lining are included.White lining is standard in felts, but if you prefer a black lining, please specify in the personalization request. The linings are cut from flat silk cloth and sewn individually with pleats around the center for each hat.
TRIM:
1. A grosgrain ribbon around the crown
OR
2. A twist Rope and 3″ Tassels.
Interior sweatband is a 1.5” grosgrain ribbon.
The brim edge on hats will have a wire to assure longevity with the curved up shape and covered with grosgrain ribbon.
Hat sizing is in inches or cm, please.
A video might help with measuring for the right size:https://youtu.be/yyOxb15k-iA
If you are interested in other felt or trim colors, just ask and I will try to fulfill your request.Typical personalization requests are:
*asking for a different color for the lining
*asking for a different color for the trim
*leaving a raw edge on Beaver Felt hats
Each Saturno is custom made for each order.There will certainly be slight variations with each hat since each one is made to order. If needed, I may order more materials to customize your hat and most are shipped from Europe.I will get each finished as quickly as possible but you might allow 2-3 weeks for production in case materials need to be ordered.
Known as the Catholic Clergy “Usual” Hat.This is 100% Wool Felt shaped to the dimensions of the traditional Saturno with a gentle dome crown and wide brim.
THE USUAL HAT.
The usual clerical hat is familiar to all persons who have travelled in countries where clergymen wear the full ecclesiastical dress outside of their houses, such as Italy, France, Belgium and Spain. Although, according to local customs, it may slightly vary in some of its features, yet its shape and general appearance make it quite different from a layman’s hat.In the eighteenth century, it had assumed the shape of a cocked hat familiar to us as worn by the heroes of the Revolution, and it generally retained this shape until the middle of the nineteenth century; but it has nowadays reverted to its earlier form of a round, broad brimmed, low- crowned hat. In strict etiquette, it should be made of beaver hair; but, for reasons of general economy, and also for greater comfort in summer, it is frequently made of ordinary felt.The usual hat is uniformly black for all ecclesiastics, except the Pope and Cardinals, as will be noted hereafter; but the crown is encircled with a silk band or cord, the color of which is indicative of the wearer s dignity. The cord seems now generally preferred to the band, it ends in two tassels which slightly hang in back a little to the left. That band or cord is red and gold for Cardinals; green and gold for Patriarchs and Archbishops; green for Bishops and the Regent of the Apostolic Chancery; amaranth red for the first three classes of Protonotaries for the Dome Apostolic ; purple and, outside of Rome, for the Prelates di mantellone; black for Titular Protonotaries and all other ecclesiastics. We may add that, strictly speaking, the lining of the hat should be of the same color as the band or cord; but it is not always easy to make hatters comply with this last regulation.
Excerpt from: COSTUME OF OF THE PRELATES CATHOLIC CHURCH ACCORDING TO ROMAN ETIQUETTE.
By JOHN ABEL NAINFA, S. S., D. C. L. Professor of Church History, St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore, Md. 1926
JOHN MURPHY COMPANY PRINTERS TO THE HOLY SEE
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