In 2012, when we first started out (I know), if it wasn’t for cable knit hats, I would probably still be sat in a phone shop in Burnley trying to sell clothes whilst sitting in my childhood bedroom surrounded by boxes, saying to my mum, whilst eating tea, “This next release will be the big one, Mum.”
Anyway, luckily for my mum, my family and my clothing brand aspirations, you lot bought things and now I don’t need to sell Samsung Galaxies to anyone. A relief for us all… I digress.
Our Paul cable knit hats are based on the exact hats that we made way back in the day and were named after my dear friend Paul from S.E.H Kelly, as he was the first person I ever saw wearing one of these in real life. They are based on the hats that were huge in Japan at the turn of the 21st century and were more or less impossible to get in the UK, even though they were made here!!!
The hats come in a chunky knit that suits all shapes and sizes of heads, even a massive head like mine. They are lovingly knitted in the UK by Jason and his team in the Midlands, who have been manufacturing hats for us more or less since day one. Yet another group of lovely people who were willing to take a risk on us back in the day.
The hats are made from beautiful, genuine 100% wool Donegal tweed yarn that has been shorn, blended, carded and spun in Donegal. There are lots of people and brands out there pretending to have Donegal wool in their items, but pressure them and it soon becomes clear that they’ve never even had a boxty, let alone sourced their yarns from Donegal. Those rascals!
This hat comes in the An Spéir colour, which is a bright blue with light blue flecks running through it. An Spéir is a beautiful Irish phrase meaning ‘the sky’, so I think you get the inspiration for this colour. Eating boxty, looking up at the sky and thinking about how TRiCKETT only supplies the best yarns. That sounds good to me.
No bobble, no fuss, just a wonderful hat that will last years and years. It may even make you think about visiting the north-west coast of Ireland or what you were doing in 2012. So, in some ways, it is a time machine.
100% Donegal wool.