The Wanderfolk Hat Bar
The Wanderfolk Hat Bar
Wear the story you’re living in.
Choose your hat. Choose your patch. We’ll make it yours.
The Wanderfolk Hat Bar is our hands-on custom hat experience, built for people who want something with a little more personality than what came off the shelf.
From road-worn leatherette to genuine hair-on-hide and custom engraved designs, every hat is finished by Wanderfolk and made to feel like yours.
How It Works
Your hat. Your story.
1. Choose Your Hat
Start with the color and style that feels like you.
2. Choose Your Patch
Pick one of our Wanderfolk designs or go premium or custom.
3. We Make It Yours
Once you’ve made your choices, we finish your hat for you. At many Wanderfolk events, that happens right at the booth while you wait.
Three Ways to Make It Yours
Classic Patch Hat
Choose your hat and pair it with one of our classic laser-engraved leatherette designs.
Premium Patch Hat
Premium patches may feature genuine hair-on-hide, layered materials, dimensional details or specialty finishes.
Custom Patch Hat
Your words. Your idea. Your hat.
Create a personalized patch with a name, short phrase, simple symbol or eligible custom artwork.
The Hat Bar in Person
This is where it gets fun.
The full Wanderfolk Hat Bar hits the road with us at select markets, festivals and events.
Walk up to the booth, look through the hats, dig through the patch designs and build something that feels like you.
Most standard Hat Bar orders can be finished on site, so you leave wearing the hat you just created.
And yes, we absolutely encourage trying on more than one.
Can’t Make It to a Market?
You can still wear Wanderfolk.
Shop our finished patch hats online, including small-batch designs already paired and ready to go.
Looking for something more specific? Reach out about a custom order and tell us what you have in mind.
Some Hat Bar combinations and event-exclusive designs may only be available in person.
Custom Logos + Designs
Got your own idea?
We love a good custom project.
We may be able to create patches featuring business logos, team designs, names, short phrases and other original artwork.
For logos and graphics, clean vector artwork usually gives the best engraving result. SVG, AI, EPS and similar files are preferred, although some high-resolution artwork can also work.
Highly detailed artwork may need to be simplified before engraving.
Made by Wanderfolk
Small details matter.
Our hats begin with carefully selected blanks, but what happens next is Wanderfolk.
We design, engrave, cut, press, layer and finish our pieces ourselves.
Natural leather, hair-on-hide and other materials will vary in pattern, color and texture. Those variations are part of the finished piece, not something we try to hide.
Your hat should not look like it came out of a box with a thousand identical ones behind it.
That is kind of the point.
Hat Bar FAQ
Can you make my hat while I wait?
At many in-person events, yes. Standard Hat Bar combinations can often be completed right at the booth. More detailed custom work may require additional production time.
Can I bring my own hat?
We generally customize hats supplied by Wanderfolk so we know how the materials will respond to heat and finishing.
Can I order a custom patch?
Yes. Names, short phrases, simple graphics and some logos can be turned into custom patches.
Can you engrave my business logo?
In many cases, yes. Clean, single-color vector artwork works best.
Will you have the same patches at every event?
Not necessarily. We produce many designs in small batches, and inventory changes from event to event.
Are hair-on-hide patches identical?
Never. Genuine hide naturally varies in color, grain and pattern, which means every patch has its own character.
Can I order something I saw at a market later?
Usually. Send us a photo or description and we will let you know whether we can recreate it.
Find the One That Feels Like You
Maybe it makes you laugh.
Maybe it says something you believe.
Maybe it just looks dang good with your favorite jeans.
Whatever the reason, the best hat is the one that becomes part of your story.
Wear the hat. Make the story.