{"id":79283,"date":"2025-12-07T13:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/79283\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T13:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:27:06","slug":"aghaa%cb%88-hat-co-weaves-culture-into-every-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/79283\/","title":{"rendered":"Aghaa\u02c8 Hat Co. Weaves Culture into Every Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)&#8211; Aghaa\u02c8 Hat Co. is an Indigenous-owned and led hat and beadwork brand based in El Paso, Texas, that centers ancestral traditions in its work.<\/p>\n<p>The owner, Cynthia Guiterrez-Krapp, crafts repurposed rabbit and beaver fur felts into handmade hats. <\/p>\n<p>Her work comes with a story. Cynthia was diagnosed with HER2+ breast cancer, an aggressive form that grows by about 1% every day. <\/p>\n<p>She closed down her last shop on Alameda Avenue last year while undergoing radiation. <\/p>\n<p>Cynthia has been cancer free since October 6th and is at last reopening Aghaa&#8217; Hat Company in a more manageable location, a shipping container.<\/p>\n<p>Aghaa&#8217; Hat Company&#8217;s offerings extend beyond headwear to bead-woven bands and custom hat accessories that celebrate desert-inspired motifs.<\/p>\n<p>Leather Beaded Cuff and Peyote Stitch workshops invite customers to learn traditional techniques, blending heritage with modern design, held at local venues such as Wine Down and Steady Pace Coffee.<\/p>\n<p>Aghaa&#8217; Hat Company aims to preserve and honor Indigenous histories through tangible, wearable art. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)&#8211; Aghaa\u02c8 Hat Co. is an Indigenous-owned and led hat and beadwork brand based in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-79283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}