My father wrote essentially this article for Connoisseur Magazine in 1983; you can see the cover, with a zoomable photo of the hat that was made for him then in

My father wrote essentially this article for Connoisseur Magazine in 1983; you can see the cover, with a zoomable photo of the hat that was made for him then in the hinterlands of Ecuador, here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B004MKRY30 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B004MKRY30 The crown of that hat is about 6.5 inches across. Can you count the weaves in one inch? The NPR article claims 4000 weaves per square inch, or about 63 in each direction - I think Dad's has at least that! I'll try to dig up the text of Dad's article, it was pretty interesting.