In 2011, Cuyana was born and Gallardo wanted the company’s first product to be hand-woven straw hats. “Ecuador has the beautiful heritage, which is the craft of making straw hats, of hand ...

“But in Ecuador, we always call them sombreros de paja toquilla.” The hats quickly spread from the workers on the Panama Canal to people in high society throughout the US, Brazil ...

Gabriel Bouys/Getty Images The Panama hat is infamously misnamed. The handmade straw headgear actually hails from Ecuador. Construction workers building the Panama Canal wore the hats, though ...

In the Ecuador leg of his Latin America tour, the first-time father was given two paja toquilla hats – one for him and one for his child. "A proudly Ecuadorian present. 'The best hat in the ...

The two-day festival will also include a parade down Ferry St. on Sunday August 14.Get Photo Peter Potty (left) and his wife Evelyn don their Ecuadorian bracelets and hats during the the annual ...

The woven hat actually originated in Ecuador, the only place in the world that has such a long-standing weaving tradition. The construction workers building the Panama Canal (1903–1914 ...

The students saw their teacher, Jason Anderson, making the hats for an organization that aids those in need in Ecuador, Una Obra de Amor, and decided they wanted to help. So far, Anderson and his ...