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One we made earlier

The Five-Panel in Red / Natural, Northwoods Pines on the front

Collect the Northwoods

Now build yours

14 colours, 28 patches, your arrangement. $30 for the hat, $15 a patch — pressed by hand and posted within 14 days.

Saturday on the Chain$60
  • Northwoods PinesFront · Large
  • PontoonLeft side · Small
The Five-Panel in Red / Natural, Pontoon on the left side

And on the left sidePatches go on the front, the back and both sides — up to four areas on one hat.

25 ready to press today

Patches that know where you docked

Every patch is a place, a habit, or an inside joke. All $15, pressed onto the hat you build.

See all 28

From the pop-ups

Find us where the Northwoods gathers — pick your patches at the cart and we press your hat on the spot.

Shoppers at the Bent Prop Hats cart under the market tentA freshly pressed hat, patches and all, held up at the boothThe patch spinner rack, loaded with lake-sign patches

Nothing on the calendar yet — the lake will tell us. First Casts hears first.

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Where are you wearing yours?

Minocqua, Eagle River, Manitowish, Door County, camp roads with no names — this whole state is hat country. Show us where yours ends up.

Hand-drawn map of Wisconsin dotted with lakes, landmarks, and places to wear your hat
Pressing a hat at the Bent Prop tent, hats stacked on the striped table

The bend is the point

Every lake family has bent a prop on the same rock. This is the hat you get to keep afterward — and you build it yourself: pick your hat, pick your patches, and we press the summer on.

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