Hanna Hats of Donegal
Donegal Town, Ireland· Est. 1924· $$
- Signature
- Hand-finished Donegal tweed scally and newsboy caps
- Best for
- A real Donegal tweed cap with the woven label to prove it
- Known for
- Scally, Newsboy, Flat cap
- Ships from
- Ireland
Hanna Hats has been hand-finishing tweed caps in Donegal Town since 1924, and the workshop is still run by the Hanna family. The cloth is woven a few miles away — the cap and the tweed share a postcode — and every cap is sewn, blocked and finished by hand. Their eight-panel scally is the cap most people mean when they say "Donegal tweed cap."
The line is broad. Vintage and Donegal Touring caps are the heritage tweeds; the Erin and the Tara are the modern, lighter wool versions; the Donegal Newsboy is the puffier eight-panel cousin. There are also patchwork models stitched from offcuts, which sound chaotic and somehow always look right. Sizes go up to XXL, which is unusually generous for a hand-built cap.
If you want a cap that traces back to a specific Irish workshop and a specific Irish cloth, this is the obvious starting point. Pricing sits in the comfortable middle — these aren't bespoke money, but they're not pile-it-high either.
Cap styles Hanna Hats of Donegal is known for
- The Scally Cap →A short-brimmed, eight-panel wool or tweed cap with working-class roots in Ireland, Scotland and the north of England.
- The Newsboy Cap →A fuller, eight-panel cap with a button at the crown and a stiffer snap-down brim — the cap of newsies, golfers and 1920s style icons.
- The Flat Cap →The umbrella term for the soft, short-brimmed working man's cap — the family that includes the scally, ivy, driver and newsboy.