USAGE

With right Mokona hat care , it sustains the quality and has longer age.

• Only touch your Mokona hat with clean and dry hands.

• When you put your mokona hat on or take it of or need to adjust it, handle the mokona hat by the front and back of the brim. Otherwise it might lose it’s shape and get dirty.

• Flexing your mokona hat may eventually weaken the body of the crown and brim and make it lose its ability to keep its shape.

• Never handle your mokona hat by holding the crown.. it will get fingerprint oils on it.

• Do not pick up your mokona hat by the pinch... it will may misshape it.

• Do not place mokona hat on its brim.. it may flatten or lose its curve especially when it is wet.

• Consider using a rain protector for Some mokona hats.

• Place your mokona hat upside down on it’s crown in a clean area.

• Short term.. place your mokona hat on a Styrofoam or hat head. You can make a tube or set on covered oatmeal box or coffee can.

• Do not leave your mokona hat in the car or in the sun as the humidity may cause it to lose shape and the sweatband, cotton, wool or leather, could shrink or distort.

• Mokona hats of any material may be sensitive to prolonged exposure to direct sunlight causing colors to fade.

• When traveling it is best to transport your mokona hat in a hat box with a handle to insure protection.

• Occasionally flip down the sweat band so it can dry and air out. If your sweatband regularly soaks up a lot of sweat or hair oils then make sure you dry it out often. If you must clean the sweatband... be very careful. Try using a toothbrush dipped in a mild soap solution and scrubbing. Rinse and blot very carefully. Do Not Get the hat wet or it will stain

STORAGE

• Make sure your mokona hat is in good condition before storing.

• Do not store a dirty mokona hat!

• Remove any stains or dirt

• Steam out creases.

• Brush your mokona hat if appropriate.

• Place mokona hat in a hat box with a lid.

• Stuff the crown with tissue...

• Either set the hat on its crown, filled with tissue... or use enough tissue so that the weight of the mokona hat is not on the brim.

• Cardboard rings can be easily made.. a strip about 28 inches long and 6-10 inches high... taped together so that your mokona hat can set in it upside down with the brim weight having most of its weight rest on the cardboard and the crown.

• Mokona hats of similar shape and sizes can be stacked 2 or 3 high using tissue between each hat.

• Mokona hats may be wrapped individually in plastic.

• Plastic or paper bags with cedar balls or moth balls or a small bag of lavender may help keep the moths and other hat eaters away. Do not let the repellant touch the mokona hat.

• Store bows by stuffing tissue in the bows and place in hat box with lid.

• Prop feathers up with tissue paper gently supporting them.

• Veiling's need to have tissue to support them in proper shape while storing.

• Other decorative embellishments may need to be covered in tissue to keep them from staining the mokona  Hat

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