The Fez of the Week Blog
The somewhat occasional ramblings of the Fezmonger featuring design prototypes, production updates and the occasional photo essay covering our adventures in silly hats.

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#90 The TWiT Brick House Fez

#90 The TWiT Brick House Fez

We return to our Fez of the Week project with a special update to one of our past fezzes. A couple of years ago we had the honor of making the official TWiT fez for one of our idols, Leo Laporte. We first met Leo in person when we went to visit his studio where...
#77 The Vacuum Tube Fez

#77 The Vacuum Tube Fez

It’s the audiophile’s thinking cap! The perfect fez for those evenings spent relaxing at home listening vintage radio programs as you bask in the warm glow emanating from an antique radio while sipping a nice single malt… or streaming online music while you work late, under the sterile glow of florescent lights, while guzzling stale...
#62 The Clockwork Fez in “Leather”

#62 The Clockwork Fez in “Leather”

This week’s fez is a test of a new fabric we found recently. This synthetic “leather” is actually created in a similar fashion to our velvet but this has a waxed finish that creates the worn leather look you see here. We decided to test out the small bit of fabric we have by creating...
Clockwork Returns!

Clockwork Returns!

Just in time for that last minute shopping! Our Clockwork design returns for a third round on yet another type of velvet. This time we have a soft brown velvet with a pebbled texture that makes for one comfy fez. This is also the first of the Clockworks to be featured on our new Mark...

#31 The Golden Trilobite Prototype Fez

This week’s fez is one that has been requested for a long time. I remember it first came up as part of a larger discussion with fans of the comic Girl Genius – a great online “gas-lamp fantasy” comic. Well we get a lot of requests to do fezzes with a specific piece of art...

Clockwork Fez

Another one of our Fez of the Week experiments returns as a Limited Edition Fez! I was lucky enough to find a few yards of this beautiful mahogany velvet and immediately knew what I needed to do with it. We’ve made 22 of these and we have enough fabric for maybe a dozen more so...
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