O'Farrell Hat Company: Custom Cowboy Hats Handmade in Santa Fe
Walk into the little shop at 111 East San Francisco Street in Santa Fe and you get hit with a smell you do not forget: fur felt, steam, and a hundred years of tradition packed into one room. This is O'Farrell Hat Company, where a small crew of hatters still shapes cowboy hats one head at a time, by hand, the same slow way it was done long before anybody thought to ship the work overseas. No factory in another country. No shortcuts. Just American hands turning raw felt into something you could hand down to your grandkids. Continue reading
SportChassis: Luxury Freightliner Haulers Built in Oklahoma
Pull up to a horse show, a boat ramp, or a NASCAR paddock and you will eventually see one: a truck that looks like a Freightliner big rig somebody shrank down and dressed up for date night. Crew cab, dual rear wheels, a grille the size of a barn door, and a paint job glossy enough to check your hair in. That is a SportChassis, and the best part of the story is not how it looks or how much it can pull. It is that every single one of them is built in Clinton, Oklahoma by American workers. Continue reading
Steinway & Sons: World-Class Pianos Handcrafted in New York
Walk onto almost any concert stage in the world and you will find the same instrument waiting in the spotlight. It is black, it is enormous, and it carries a single name in gold script above the keys. That name is Steinway & Sons, and the remarkable truth is that the Steinway pianos sold across the Americas are still built the old-fashioned way, by hand, by American workers, in a factory in New York City. In an age of automation and overseas outsourcing, that is nothing short of extraordinary. Continue reading
Indian Motorcycle: America's First Motorcycle Company, Built in Iowa
There are few American brands that can claim to have started an entire industry, but Indian Motorcycle can. Long before Harley-Davidson rolled out its first machine, two New England engineers had already put America on two motorized wheels. That was in 1901, and 2026 marks the 125th anniversary of America's First Motorcycle Company. A century and a quarter later, Indian is still doing the thing that made it great in the first place. It is building motorcycles in the United States, with American workers, on American soil. Continue reading
Liberty Flags: American Made Flags Flying Strong from Tulsa
There are very few products in this country that carry as much meaning per square foot as the American flag. It hangs over schoolhouses and statehouses, drapes the caskets of veterans, and waves from front porches on the Fourth of July. With the 250th birthday of the United States now less than a month away, that meaning is hitting a little harder than usual. The question of where your flag was actually made matters more than ever, and Liberty Flags of Tulsa, Oklahoma has been answering that question the right way for more than forty years. Continue reading
SKB Cases: American Made Protective Cases Built to Outlast Everything
Hard cases are one of those quiet, unglamorous products that nobody thinks about until the day a $5,000 camera, a vintage guitar, or a piece of mission critical military gear goes for a ride in the back of a truck. On that day, the case is the only thing standing between an expensive piece of equipment and a very bad outcome. For nearly fifty years, SKB Cases has been quietly building the cases that show up on those days, and they have been building them in the United States the entire time. Continue reading
Finger Lakes Textiles: American Made Winter Headwear and Contract Sewing from Upstate New York
Some American factories produce a product. A smaller number produce a product and a purpose at the same time. Finger Lakes Textiles belongs firmly in the second category. From a 15,000 square foot production facility in the Finger Lakes region of New York, the company turns out more than 1.2 million pieces of winter headwear every year for the United States military and commercial customers, while providing meaningful, skilled employment to veterans and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Continue reading
PopUpGizmos: American Made Solar Bunkend Covers and Luxe Liners for Popup and Hybrid Campers
Anyone who has owned a popup or hybrid camper knows the trade-off that comes with all that fresh air and tent-style sleeping space. The canvas bunkends that make these campers so appealing are also the weakest link when it comes to heat, cold, wind, sun damage, and condensation. For more than two decades, PopUpGizmos has been solving that problem with a family-made lineup of solar covers, insulated liners, and accessories built right here in the United States. Continue reading