Beijing, May 31 (EFE).Beijing, May 31 (EFE). — The Ecuadorian Embassy in China promoted Tuesday its typical Andean straw hats known in their country of origin as “toquillas” but called “Panama hats” ...

Despite their name, Panama hats are not made in Panama -- they're are made in Ecuador, and are woven by hand from a plant called the toquilla palm. And the finest of these hats is actually woven in a ...

John G. Macas, president and owner of a hat company that has kept Baltimoreans in fedoras, tweed caps and cream-colored Panamas for nearly 70 years, died Tuesday of heart failure. He was 72. Mr. Macas ...

The French Embassy in Ecuador will finance a project to preserve the toquilla straw hat. This traditional Ecuadorian accessory was declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2012. For ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Meline: Most hat stores don't do custom shaping and sizing, but at Lock & Co., the oldest hat shop in the world, every head is measured before a hat is made. After ...

CUENCA, Ecuador (Reuters) - Ecuadoreans have mostly swallowed their chagrin and accepted that their most famous export will for evermore be known as the "Panama hat". The Ecuadorean hats used to be ...

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