Combining an artful, centuries-old weaving tradition from their native country of Ecuador with the latest in modern styles in Napa Valley, Elba Mercedes and Fabian Anda have opened Montecristi Panama ...

Early one morning in June, a Panama hat weaver named Simon Espinal sat down to work at a wooden table in his house in Pile, an obscure village hidden in the hills near Montecristi, in Ecuador's steamy ...

Don Rosendo Delgado, now in his late 80s, is one of the great old-time hat dealers. He says Simon Espinal's hats are among the finest — if not the finest — he's ever seen, though he recalls a female ...