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Re-purposing old material into new items is a rewarding journey — but even more so when it’s refashioning a wartime uniform into a piece of peacetime apparel.
It just feels right.
The caps are each handmade — with meticulous attention to detail — by the infamous cap artist Bernot, located in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Our friends at Bernot in Lithuania paid attention to every detail when turning these uniforms into caps.
Even the straps are made from the jacket linings, and as long as they last, we’ll drop in one of the original three crowns buttons from the uniform jackets.
About Handcrafted Swedish WWII Wool Caps
The caps are handcrafted from a WWII Swedish military uniform. The material is wadmal — which is felted wool, using a method that goes all the way back to the Viking age, and has been common in the Nordics since then.
For this first batch, the uniform was one bought by my father to use as a moped uniform when on rides with his veteran moped club. The uniform was since used by me for a couple of winters living in Sweden.
For this first batch, we kept the three-crowns buttons off of the jacket, and will put one for each order. Hopefully we’ll be able to do the same for future orders, but there’s a chance we will only use pants, and not the jacket for future batches, because it contains more usable surfaces of material.
We also dabble in other areas of handcraft, usually in collaboration with artists, such as our handcrafted caps and hand inked artwork.
