Baldwin's Custom Hat and Boot Co.

Custom-fit and Designed Cowboy Hats and Cowboy Boots


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Baldwin’s Judged Champion Hatter and People’s Choice, Art of the Cowboy Makers, 2011

June 15, 2011, by Baldwin's

Gene Baldwin’s “Glendolene” took top honors at the Art of the Cowboy Maker’s show in Loveland, Colorado June 8-11, 2011, earning the judges’ votes for Champion Hattter and the People’s Choice award for Best Hat as well! Glendolene was the name of Tom Horn’s girlfriend, who as it happened, was the sweetheart of a federal […]

Baldwin Featured on Oregon Art Beat

November 12, 2009, by Baldwin's

OPB Oregon Art Beat features Gene Baldwin

“Using old-fashioned techniques to create custom hats began as a retirement hobby for Gene Baldwin. Now it’s a full time business. His cowboy and other styles of hats are often colorful and sometimes decorated with beads or braid. He sizes hats made of rabbit or beaver fur felt by hand, customizing them to individual customers’ […]

Sisters artist tells ‘Oregon Love Story’, news article

July 29, 2008, by Baldwin's

By Carla Merrell, Nugget Newspaper, July 29, 2008 Having left Independence, Missouri several months ago, the hardship of being part of the wagon train going west was felt moment by moment by all. With so much boredom and so much hardship she began tatting, the making of lace, to ease her mind. At Ft. Boise […]

Sisters man crafts custom hats, news article

September 5, 2006, by Baldwin's

by Joseph Durrmeyer, Nugget Newspaper, Sept. 5, 2006 Looking for that perfect hat can be a challenge, even if you have a head shape that conforms to the ideal of Stetson or one of the other mainstream manufacturers. A custom hat could be your solution. Fortunately, there is a custom hat maker in Sisters. Gene […]

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Worth Noting

  • Thanks again, from Australia
  • Nate Hilts of the band, The Dead South, wears a Baldwin Hat
  • A couple of Baldwin’s hats attend Longmire days
  • Baldwin featured in Bend Fashion Quarterly
  • Renovation of old Cowboy Hats
  • Stuff That Works — Baldwin Custom Hat & Boot Co. featured in Frontier Partisans
  • Oregon Art Beat Exhibition Celebrates 15 Years Of Creativity
  • “If you made hats for everyone, we would all wear hats.”

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