Limpia Creek Hats has built a reputation for the highest quality, craftsmanship, and elegance in custom-made luxury and western hats. Limpia Creek Hats is operated by true Texas cowboys in Fort Davis, a true frontier town. Passion for the cowboy way of life and appreciation for our Texas heritage flows into each hat handcrafted by Limpia Creek Hats.
All of our hats are built to order – wide brim, tall crown, distinct crease or no crease at all – and you choose the color, ribbon and trim, along with beaver blend, etc. These are just a few of the options you’ll get when ordering a custom Limpia Creek Hat.
Making the Old, New Again.
Complete restorations: Your hat will be cleaned, reblocked and finished with a lambskin sweatband, satin liner and similar hat dressing.
Felt comes from the process of felting, which uses different types of materials such as cotton, wool, silk and fur. Hats are made from the “felting” of fur fibers verses using “pelt” as in a fur coat. The fur fibers are woven together in such a fashion as cotton candy or a roll of cotton.
Limpia Creek Hats uses only the highest quality of beaver fur felt. Our Limpia 100 is made of 100 percent pure beaver fur felt.
Limpia Creek Custom Hats are made by hand, one at a time, right here in Texas. The entire process from start to finish takes approximately 40 hours per hat. Some may take longer, depending on the customers needs.
Each hat body is hand picked by our staff in accordance to the customer’s order. The hat body is matched with the correct “hat block,” after which the hat is blocked, the crown is ironed and sanded, the brim flange, ironed and sanded, and finally, the finishing touches of adding the sweatband, liner and hat dressing are performed.
Although we have many quality control check points, the final quality control stop is with the shaping of the hat before shipping to customers worldwide.
Many customers send pictures or look at our brochure for ideas. You can also spot the hat you like by watching a movie, which Limpia Creek Hats can refer to as well. You can also pin-point a celebrity hat style, and we can re-create it from photos. Each hat is shaped by hand. We do not use any pressing or shaping blocks. Therefore, no two hats are alike.
Limpia Creek Hats does not use any color cosmetics on our hats. We do not use powders or dyes to make the hat appear “absolutely perfect” in color. Any color or fur variations in our hats are of the natural fiber itself.
Since Limpia Creek Hats uses only beaver and rabbit fur felt without cosmetics, it will not hurt your hat to get wet, or even drenched. We actually prefer that you wear your hat in the rain, and do not cover it with plastic or a rain cover.
When you get out of the rain, just hang it up to dry. Try not to touch your hat too much and don’t change the crease. Just let it dry naturally, and if necessary, re-shape after it has dried.
Limpia Creek Hats will do complete renovations on any felt hat. We will advise you if your hat is not a good candidate for a complete renovation. There are times when “other company’s” felt hat will lose some coloring, due to the cosmetics washing off, or the brim may shrink up to 1/4 inch in size. The crown may also lower (shrink) by 1/4 of an inch as well. Most hats can be renovated up to two times.
Limpia Creek Hats will send a paper tape measure that you can use to measure your head to the nearest 1/8 of an inch. We ask that you measure your head exactly where the sweatband will rest on your head. We will then divide that measurement by pie (3.14) to determine your hat size. We will also ask you to describe your head shape. For example: Oval, round, x-long oval, etc. We would also like to know what size of hat you have ordered in the past, and if it was a comfortable fit or if you had difficulties when buying or wearing a felt hat.
