Fascinating. I’m a professional hatter and I’ve been so intrigued by this process for ages but I’ve never seen it done. Thank you for making this video.
@ maybe one day. I need to consult with a friend who’s a whizz in mycology to see if he knows where to find something like this. If so it would be neat to make some. I’d probably look into sourcing some mushroom leather or cactus leather that’s treated much like leather to make some reeded sweatbands out of for comfort and to resist sweat. I think it would be interesting to see how they would work out using a proper brim flange.
@@ph0t0sh0pmast3r back in the days hatters used a lot of strong glues and inhaled a lot of toxic and psychoactive compounds. So They got more and more crazy with time. I once met an old guy who worked at an paint thinner factory for 40 years. This guy was an absolute legit insane Goblin lol. He told me there were some colleges even huffing the products on purpose at the work break, to speedrun this state of mind. Like in a small room Seems this whole factore is a madhouse, nobody even realised it :D
What a unique culture! These days you hear about mushrooms as a modern replacement for leather and other materials, but it looks like people have been doing this for a long time in Romania.
That’s amazing! This is that internet magic. Never would I have ever thought I would learn how to make hats out of mushrooms! I wonder if you could also make amazing multicolored hats with traditional pigments from grasses and plants. I know there are people who use those kinds of pigments to color yarn.
Wow! Thank you so much for making this video. I was painfully curious about how the hats were made. Your hard work in documenting this rare art is very appreciated!
Sir! you need to get in contact with this gentleman again and tell him he needs to sell hats worldwide! I would LOVE to have one!!!!!! I'd pay whatever for shipping to have it here too! I've never heard of these hats before and these are incredible!
I had no idea that such a thing was done. That is so cool. Wow. It would be a shame if that craft left us. Thank you so much for this video. This video could be critical for the survival of this craft. Thank you again. We need to see more about this.
Neat! I've read about amadou, but I've never actually seen it before. Incidentally, I absolutely love the sound of the clock chime that plays in the background @21:24 the resonance is unearthly.
I was today years old when I learned this even exists, although I'm from a neighbouring country and might have seen the hats too but I just assumed it was leather. Fascinating.
Thank you for this - I had heard of mushroom hats way way back as a very amatuer mycologist but this was really interesting - I hadn't quite fathomed the elasticity that makes it all possible
I was once lost in the Forrest with a bop from the former Chekoslovakia after crashing with a Cessna 152 single piston airplane. We later had to make Prophylactic condoms from these mushrooms. Thats how we managed to stay warm until rescue arrived 9 days later. I had to venture into the Forest to forage them while Lucia would spend hours milding, battering and sewing these fungi into the right shape and size. Shout out to u Lucia Zuzuna !
I have known this mushroom that in the folksterm is called Chaga and that people used it to travel fire from place to place during days of traveling to make the evening fires and have warmth and tea from it, also some medicine purpose but I have never heared or seen that it can be made into headware, absolutely incredible! Love it! Even the drawing made on it, stunning! Keep this art form alive! It is wonderful 👌👌
I lived in Michigan for a time when I was young and we collected herbs and chaga from Birch trees on our land. We did make tea of it and always had a store put aside for medicinal uses. Now, it's been found to be greatly beneficial in treating some cancers. I miss seeing it, as I live across the country now. I haven't even tasted chaga in 30+ years. The last time I was in Michigan was a few years ago and the trees are bare, even in the deeper woods because people steal it from forests and sell it online. They don't usually have the permission of the land owner. They do the same with American Ginseng. They steal it when they find a patch of it.
@@melissarmt7330Both chaga and the mushroom from the video grow everywhere here in Russia. Chaga is used as a medicinal mushroom, and the species from the video is used in beekeeping to produce smoke. Also sometimes it is used to light fires.
So lovely! I've seen them before, and assumed they were suede leather. Mushrooms? Delightful!!!! I also see why they are so pricey, it's an unusual, and time consuming process. Thank you for sharing this!
❤❤❤ It's a pity that some sentences are cut off in the middle and the film ends so abruptly. I would have liked to have seen so much more, but thank you very much for pointing it out and presenting it.
How wonderful to see you embracing your family heritage! It's amazing to see the trahma stretch so nicely. Pounding the material to gently coax the fibers to stretch just so must take years of experience. Thank you for sharing your travels and artistry!
Wow! It's hard to imagine who could have looked at a fungus and thought they could use it in clothing. Very interesting. I knew about certain fungus being used to catch sparks. But hat making is new to me.
Transylvanian mushroom hats. Despite all the evil in the world, never let it destroy your faith in humanity, for who else would think of something like that.
From a hungarian encyclopedia entry dating from the 1900s-1940s it is stated that besides the Erdély region it is also practiced in bavaria and croatia among others...
Excellent video!! I started learning about mushrooms because I was cultivating them, and from there I started to become more interested in hunting mushrooms. I learned about Amadou from Paul Stamets because he is a prolofic wearer of these hats. I had always wondered how they were processed into hats. I also have interest in firemaking, I like to use flint + a fire steel. It is extremely difficult to start a fire with flint and steel without charcloth or charred punk wood , how people learned to boil amadou in ash so they could start fire with flint + pyrite I will never know!
I submitted an idea to AI over a year ago or more and I don't recall the prompt but my mushroom hunter forrest girl wore a hat similar to the hat in the begining of the video, and it resonated with me and I didn't know they actually could make hats like that with actual mushrooms! What synchronicity 😮
Incredible ❤ it makes sense that such a dense interwoven fibrous structure could be stretched like that, but my simple caveman brain was thinking they would dry the skin and patch it together like a quilt 😮
Ingenious! I had no idea that constructing clothing from mushrooms was even possible. If I had the opportunity, I would pair this hat with a rain jacket made from fish scales/skin. (Another thing i didn't know was possible until seeing a TH-cam video recently)
Wonderful video, nothing better watch see people use natural material for crafting and an unusual to that 😃 Also, will recommend a friend who do some homemade tailoring and sometimes she makes hats to attend hat parade...
I love that traditional axe! I bought my son one when he changed schools. My wife and her family all got one from the school (though my wife's is a model of an axe, like a little icon or homáge).
There's also a British guy who makes mushroom leather products, he also makes many other things like leather from fish skin and many other animal skin product's aswel as natural pigments to color stuff with!🙂✌️
WTF? I'm in my late 40s, and I've never heard of this. Thanks for the education, bro. 👍EDIT: Being largely an ethnic Irish-Polak, in America, I'm always interested to learn about different European cultures and traditions...others too, but primarily Indo-European. This is fascinating.
Guy really should consider advertising this hats among Dwarf Fortress players.
I'd like a plump helmet
brilliant. the tower caps of the caverns would indeed make good hats :V
the plump helmet man shudders in fear. the plump helmet man is struck down, it was inevitable.
How much would they pay? I can pick the hats up locally
@@LeeGee 75 dollars each? its 2025, make it worth it.
Fascinating. I’m a professional hatter and I’ve been so intrigued by this process for ages but I’ve never seen it done. Thank you for making this video.
Are you mad? As a hatter? 🤔
@ everyone wants to discuss my mental health as soon as I tell them I’m a hatter.
These or similar mushrooms are found nearly everywhere, do you plan to make one of your own?
@ maybe one day. I need to consult with a friend who’s a whizz in mycology to see if he knows where to find something like this. If so it would be neat to make some. I’d probably look into sourcing some mushroom leather or cactus leather that’s treated much like leather to make some reeded sweatbands out of for comfort and to resist sweat. I think it would be interesting to see how they would work out using a proper brim flange.
@@ph0t0sh0pmast3r back in the days hatters used a lot of strong glues and inhaled a lot of toxic and psychoactive compounds.
So They got more and more crazy with time.
I once met an old guy who worked at an paint thinner factory for 40 years. This guy was an absolute legit insane Goblin lol.
He told me there were some colleges even huffing the products on purpose at the work break, to speedrun this state of mind.
Like in a small room
Seems this whole factore is a madhouse, nobody even realised it :D
This is exactly the kind of thing TH-cam was invented for cheers bud 😊
@@NightWarrior-ev7wk
Like he would say:
"Okey"
10:14 I love how happy that bloke is with the perfect mushroom. Pure artisan's joy!
He's a real fungi.
@Puddingskin01 😂
What a unique culture! These days you hear about mushrooms as a modern replacement for leather and other materials, but it looks like people have been doing this for a long time in Romania.
>culture
I see what you did there
Notice the language of Hungarian, as is the writing on the tools. These are Hungarians.
@@ferretyluv😂😂👍👍
NOT in romania!!!
Identifying what mushrooms you can make a hat out of by smell? Is this gnome technology?
It’s called smecherie
Or maybe it's goblin tech
believe it or not, humans are the most intriguing creatures on earth!!
@@Rare.99 eh. but usually for the wrong reasons
Yes. It is.
That’s amazing! This is that internet magic. Never would I have ever thought I would learn how to make hats out of mushrooms!
I wonder if you could also make amazing multicolored hats with traditional pigments from grasses and plants. I know there are people who use those kinds of pigments to color yarn.
Wow I've never heard of this before it's such a neat material ty for filming it all
You saved something valuable here. This caught my attention because of Paul Stamets explaining where/how his hat was made. Miracles and wonders!
What an incredible material. The way it just stretches and stretches like that is amazing.
Thank you for sharing this. I’ve wanted to see this process of how they process it for such a long time.
that is why I made this video!
Fascinating video! Had never heard of this before. Karoly did a fantastic job of talking through it and showing how it works. Really cool
Look at Paul Stamets hat!
Oh wow I hope they find a way to preserve this tradition.
Wow! Thank you so much for making this video. I was painfully curious about how the hats were made. Your hard work in documenting this rare art is very appreciated!
Sir! you need to get in contact with this gentleman again and tell him he needs to sell hats worldwide! I would LOVE to have one!!!!!! I'd pay whatever for shipping to have it here too! I've never heard of these hats before and these are incredible!
He does sell it you can find him e.g. on pinterest
The flexibility and ingenuity of the human mind is amazing.
Great documentary.
🖖🌻💙
The colors of the hats are beautiful
I had no idea that such a thing was done. That is so cool. Wow. It would be a shame if that craft left us. Thank you so much for this video. This video could be critical for the survival of this craft. Thank you again. We need to see more about this.
This is wonderful- thank you so much for highlighting this craft 🙏
Neat! I've read about amadou, but I've never actually seen it before. Incidentally, I absolutely love the sound of the clock chime that plays in the background @21:24 the resonance is unearthly.
I was today years old when I learned this even exists, although I'm from a neighbouring country and might have seen the hats too but I just assumed it was leather.
Fascinating.
Thank you for sharing these skills and techniques of previous generations
Looks like a fun guy!
I’ve heard the saying, ‘I’ll eat my hat’. This makes it possible.😂
This is important and must be preserved. Greetings from central Texas.
Thank you for teaching me something new!
bardzo się cieszę że robi pan materiały po angielsku i w końcu mogę się podzielić filmami ze znajomymi z zagranicy
So amazing. For a mushroom to be a wearable fibre makes me feel enlightened.
thank you so much for sharing, this is such a wonderful video
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm so happy to come across this video. Thank you for sharing this unusual craft. I like these hats.
Thank you for this - I had heard of mushroom hats way way back as a very amatuer mycologist but this was really interesting - I hadn't quite fathomed the elasticity that makes it all possible
I was once lost in the Forrest with a bop from the former Chekoslovakia after crashing with a Cessna 152 single piston airplane.
We later had to make Prophylactic condoms from these mushrooms. Thats how we managed to stay warm until rescue arrived 9 days later.
I had to venture into the Forest to forage them while Lucia would spend hours milding, battering and sewing these fungi into the right shape and size.
Shout out to u Lucia Zuzuna !
So beautiful!! Incredible material!! Many thanks to you both. Beautiful! ❤
I have One on my head right now...when people see it they love it; so do I
Thanks for sharing mate
*edit* mines a one mushroom
where did you get it, or did you make it yourself?
How does it feel compared to leather?
My father had one. He loved that. It was like leather but somehow softer.
I have known this mushroom that in the folksterm is called Chaga and that people used it to travel fire from place to place during days of traveling to make the evening fires and have warmth and tea from it, also some medicine purpose but I have never heared or seen that it can be made into headware, absolutely incredible! Love it!
Even the drawing made on it, stunning!
Keep this art form alive!
It is wonderful 👌👌
Chaga is a different species
I can understand why they are thinking about chaga, since it also grows on birch trees ..@@thewildfoodlukaszluczaj1321
I lived in Michigan for a time when I was young and we collected herbs and chaga from Birch trees on our land. We did make tea of it and always had a store put aside for medicinal uses. Now, it's been found to be greatly beneficial in treating some cancers. I miss seeing it, as I live across the country now. I haven't even tasted chaga in 30+ years. The last time I was in Michigan was a few years ago and the trees are bare, even in the deeper woods because people steal it from forests and sell it online. They don't usually have the permission of the land owner. They do the same with American Ginseng. They steal it when they find a patch of it.
@@melissarmt7330Both chaga and the mushroom from the video grow everywhere here in Russia. Chaga is used as a medicinal mushroom, and the species from the video is used in beekeeping to produce smoke. Also sometimes it is used to light fires.
Wow only heard once from hats made out of mushroom leather but had never seen the process how it is done. Thank you a lot for documenting it.
Awesome video showing a bygone craft. You also have a very pleasant air to you. Cheers
So lovely! I've seen them before, and assumed they were suede leather. Mushrooms? Delightful!!!! I also see why they are so pricey, it's an unusual, and time consuming process. Thank you for sharing this!
Pretty amazing, never thought that a mushroom could be shaped like that.
Fascinating video. Thank you!
Amazing! Greetings from USA!
❤❤❤ It's a pity that some sentences are cut off in the middle and the film ends so abruptly. I would have liked to have seen so much more, but thank you very much for pointing it out and presenting it.
This is incredible the coolest hat I have seen
This is so cool. I feel inspired by crafts like this. For something like this, i would devote my whole life.
I have waited YEARS to see a video like this! GREAT JOB!
How wonderful to see you embracing your family heritage! It's amazing to see the trahma stretch so nicely.
Pounding the material to gently coax the fibers to stretch just so must take years of experience.
Thank you for sharing your travels and artistry!
Wow! It's hard to imagine who could have looked at a fungus and thought they could use it in clothing. Very interesting. I knew about certain fungus being used to catch sparks. But hat making is new to me.
This was fascinating. Thank you for sharing it.
The first time I saw one of these was on Paul Stamets in one of his appearances on Joe Rogan's podcast. It's fascinating how they are made.
Transylvanian mushroom hats. Despite all the evil in the world, never let it destroy your faith in humanity, for who else would think of something like that.
It's a miracle and a wonderful, thanks for sharing
From a hungarian encyclopedia entry dating from the 1900s-1940s it is stated that besides the Erdély region it is also practiced in bavaria and croatia among others...
Could i get the name of encyclopaedia
Fascinating! I never would have thought fungus could be used in such a way.
Excellent video!! I started learning about mushrooms because I was cultivating them, and from there I started to become more interested in hunting mushrooms. I learned about Amadou from Paul Stamets because he is a prolofic wearer of these hats.
I had always wondered how they were processed into hats.
I also have interest in firemaking, I like to use flint + a fire steel. It is extremely difficult to start a fire with flint and steel without charcloth or charred punk wood , how people learned to boil amadou in ash so they could start fire with flint + pyrite I will never know!
What an incredible material. Ive never seen anything stretch like that.
This is the sort of thing that must be preserved at all costs.
I love your voice!
This is amazing. Thanks for sharing with us.
This is something new, I had to subscribe so I can learn more interesting things.
Incredible how it seems to increase in overall mass as its stretched
Awesome, I need to get one of these hats
Transylvania looks exactly how I imagined Transylvania to look like.
The embossing method is just so cool. I didnt expect an old iron to be the tool. Now i'll go back to gathering wool
I submitted an idea to AI over a year ago or more and I don't recall the prompt but my mushroom hunter forrest girl wore a hat similar to the hat in the begining of the video, and it resonated with me and I didn't know they actually could make hats like that with actual mushrooms! What synchronicity 😮
Incredible ❤ it makes sense that such a dense interwoven fibrous structure could be stretched like that, but my simple caveman brain was thinking they would dry the skin and patch it together like a quilt 😮
They look lovely. I would love one
Thank you for this video. Thank you also for clarifying who the Szeklers are.
This is one of the coolest things I have seen on TH-cam.
That is amazing how they do that. These are so cool!!
I'm really enjoying watching.
Fascinating. Thank you for sharing
Awesome video man! Thank you❤
This is awesome, such a clever and respectable craft.
Learned something new, very interesting. Thank you for sharing
Really interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Szevasz Kareszkám,gratulálok!
Ez igen!
Soha nem gondoltam volna,imádom mindet!
Tiszteletem
Ingenious! I had no idea that constructing clothing from mushrooms was even possible. If I had the opportunity, I would pair this hat with a rain jacket made from fish scales/skin. (Another thing i didn't know was possible until seeing a TH-cam video recently)
This is really interesting! I mean it! I never heard of a mushroom hat!!
Wow Thanks this is amazing knowledge:)
Wonderful video, nothing better watch see people use natural material for crafting and an unusual to that 😃
Also, will recommend a friend who do some homemade tailoring and sometimes she makes hats to attend hat parade...
I love that traditional axe! I bought my son one when he changed schools. My wife and her family all got one from the school (though my wife's is a model of an axe, like a little icon or homáge).
Amazing! Thank you for sharing
never expected a mushroom to become a hat this is pretty mental in a good way.
Thanks for sharing this! I learned something new :)
Now I have truly seen everything.
Interesting video! greetings from Germany
One of the coolest things ever.
Trans=across Sylvania=the woods
Fascinating!❤
This was amazing.
There's also a British guy who makes mushroom leather products, he also makes many other things like leather from fish skin and many other animal skin product's aswel as natural pigments to color stuff with!🙂✌️
Very awesome video man❤
Hes got that house of telvanni drip
Lmaoooo
Learned that from Paul Stamets a few years ago.
WTF? I'm in my late 40s, and I've never heard of this. Thanks for the education, bro. 👍EDIT: Being largely an ethnic Irish-Polak, in America, I'm always interested to learn about different European cultures and traditions...others too, but primarily Indo-European. This is fascinating.
Definitely getting that book soon
That's a very fun video 👍
Looks like a real fun guy
love this. gives a whole new meaning to 'i'll eat my hat' 🤣