Sombrero SUCCESS!

It is official. . .after two months (including a few days where I did nothing other than work on my sombrero) I have finally finished my first Panamanian hat.  It is not perfect, but I am quite proud.  And many of my community members have complemented me (and Panamanian's generally tell it like it is lol). 

                                               Cosiendo (sewing my sombrero together

 Using a razor to cut off all the access billota strands (you can see said strands in the pic above

Top view of the finished product

bottom view

rockin my new hat :-)

Wearing a traditional pollera (worn to dance tamborito) with tamborito drums and of course wearing my hat!!!

Since my hat has 10 vueltas (the brim has 10 rows) my host mom said that it could be sold here in Panama for about 30 dollars. . .which is quite a lot seeing as the hat I already have I bought for 5.  But mine was made with really thin billota and a thin weave, and took forever to make (and it wasn't just because I am an amature, 5 vueltas is much more common). And actually, with the pinta (black pattern around the brim, I think it could possibly be sold for more, I forgot to ask again, and since I am obviously not selling it I wasn't too concerned.