He’s Just Woven The World’s Finest Panama Hat. But Who Will Buy It?

He’s Just Woven The World’s Finest Panama Hat. But Who Will Buy It?

By Roff Smith

We visit one of the last — and best — practitioners of this vanishing art. Like his predecessors, he lives in Ecuador, not Panama.

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