Traditional Irish Handmade Patch Cap Green, with Irish Blessing Sewn In This Traditional Eye catching tweed patchwork cap is made with authentic tweed woven in Ireland and is the real deal! Its patches are mainly Green and Brown and it has Ireland and a Shamrock embroidered on the front and another shamrock embroidered on the back. It’s stylish and a unique clothing accessory that can be worn all year round by young and old and by men and women alike. In each cap the tweed panels are hand-stitched giving it a personality of it’s own. That’s part of the magic of owning an Irish Made Patch Cap. Every one is unique! A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY OF THE CAP The Irish flat cap is a classic flat cap (also called a newsboy cap, paddy cap, cabbie-hat the list goes on) is a light, floppy cap, traditionally they are tweed hats or made of lightly spun wool. Variations of the flat-cap date back centuries, when wool was the backbone of the economy. It arrived in its present form (and variations thereof) in the early 1800s. Because flat-caps were cheap, comfortable and durable, they were frequently worn by poorer, working-class people looking for an affordable and effective head covering to keep their heads warm during outdoor work in cold weather. The Irish flat cap style was not only popular in Ireland and Britain, but across Europe and North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among both boys and adult men.