Campana / fuste (the cone-shaped felt hood that becomes a finished hat)
An industrial-scale but technique-intensive felting craft centered in Sucre, Bolivia, where a small cluster of family-founded factories produce wool and rabbit-fur felt hoods (campanas or fustes) — the raw cone-shaped blanks from which hats of every kind, worldwide, are subsequently blocked and finished. Largely unrecognized outside the trade, Sucre's felt-hood industry supplies finished-hat manufacturers across the Americas, exporting to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and the United States, with the three main local factories together capable of producing close to two million felt hoods and hats in a single fiscal year.
Risk level: Vulnerable · Not applicable — an industrial manufacturing trade rather than an inscribed intangible heritage practice
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