A solid sustainable hat can be the perfect accessory to complete any outfit. Plus of course, an eco-friendly hat is a functional piece that will keep your face protected from the summer sun. And bonus if it’s made from natural breathable materials so you keep cool too!
If you’re in need of a hat for protection on sunny days or just want a chic accessory, the brands below have lovely collections of sustainable hats made from natural fibers and recycled materials.
Whether you’re looking for an ethical hat for a day at the beach, hike in the sun, or for spending time outside, these brands certainly have you covered with sustainable hats you’ll treasure for years to come.
Note that this guide includes affiliate links. As always we only feature brands that meet rigorous standards for responsibility we love, and that we think you’ll love too.
1. tentree
tentree has an extensive collection of ethical hats for any sunny day activity. Here you can find sustainable baseball caps, wide-brim sun hats, and bucket hats at accessible prices. They use a variety of organic and natural materials such as organic cotton, recycled plastic, and RWS-certified recycled wool. tentree offsets their carbon emissions by planting trees to rehabilitate ecosystems and providing fair wage employment in Madagascar, Indonesia, Senegal, and Haiti.
Conscious Qualities: Climate Neutral Certified, B-Corp Certified, Organic materials
Price Range: $
2. Patagonia
Patagonia is a trusted brand for eco-friendly hats for outdoor adventures or daily wear. Here you’ll find recycled hats including moisture-wicking brimmed hats, trucker hats, baseball caps, and water-repellent hats. Patagonia primarily uses recycled materials but some hats also feature organic cotton canvas or Bluesign-approved fabrics.
Conscious Qualities: Fair Trade Certified, 1% For The Planet Partner, Recycled Materials
Price Range: $
3. Made Trade
Made Trade is a fantastic place to find small, sustainable brands that align with a range of values. Made Trade allows you to shop by value, so you can find handwoven, vegan, or locally made hats made by women and BIPOC-owned brands. We especially love the rattan sun visor and handwoven plaid sun hat from Village Thrive.
Conscious Qualities: Vegan, Fair Trade, Handcrafted
Price Range: $
4. Afends
Afends produces conscious hats in pastel hues and floral, trendy prints. Their bucket hats and baseball caps are made from a variety of natural, organic, and recycled materials. They primarily use organic cotton and hemp. Afends’ unisex designs are transparently manufactured at fair-wage, ethical factories and shipped to you in recyclable packaging.
Conscious Qualities: Organic & Recycled Materials, Ethical Production
Price Range: $
5. Girlfriend
If you’re searching for sustainable bucket hats or biodegradable hats, Girlfriend’s 50/50 bucket hat is a great place to start. Made from recycled and organic cotton, you can choose between two sizes and six classic colors. Its structured yet breathable design is perfect for a hot day. Girlfriend provides an impact report for all of their products and uses fair-wage manufacturing.
Conscious Qualities: SA8000 Certified Factories, OEKO-TEX Certified Recycled Fabric
Price Range: $
6. Underprotection
Underprotection is a UK-based brand and the perfect place to find sustainable beach hats. Their small collection of bucket hats features fun prints to spice up any beach look. They also have a Lotus Sun Hat with a secure chin strap that stays put in the water. Each vegan hat is made from quick-drying recycled polyester and comes in two sizes.
Conscious Qualities: BSCI & WARP Certified Factories, PETA-Approved Vegan, B-Corp Certified
Price Range: $
7. Artesano
Artesano works alongside artisans in Ecuador who work out of their homes so that they can earn a livelihood while caring for their families. Through their work, these artisans are helping sustain traditional, generations-old crafts. The brand also only uses sustainably-sourced natural materials like toquilla straw, mocora straw, and tagua seeds.
Conscious Qualities: Ethically made, natural materials
Price Range: $$$
8. Picnicwear
Picnicwear designs fun and funky eco-friendly sun hats from deadstock cotton and upcycled vintage cotton towels. Their zero waste hats are designed and handmade in North Carolina, then hand-sewn in New York through fair-wage employment. You can pair these upcycled hats with Picnicwear’s beach shorts for a complete vintage beach day look.
Conscious Qualities: Handmade, Vintage & Upcycled Materials
Price Range: $$
9. KNOWN Supply
KNOWN Supply has a large selection of plain and printed caps for any occasion. This includes camp hats, dad hats, bucket hats, and trucker hats, with adjustable metal closures or mesh snapbacks. Their fair trade hats are made from organic cotton, and/or recycled polyester and recycled nylon. This is a great brand to support for affordable environmentally friendly hats.
Conscious Qualities: Fair Trade Certified, Organic & Recycled Materials
Price Range: $
10. Urban Native Era
Urban Native Era is an Indigenous-owned and run brand that produces a selection of essential organic hats. If you’re looking for sustainable dad hats or bucket hats made from 100% organic cotton, as well as corduroy, Urban Native Era has what you need. Many of their hats are embroidered with “You Are On Native Land,” to help start a conversation in non-Indigenous communities, and share and support an Indigenous perspective. Urban Native Era uses nontoxic dyes and recyclable, recycled packaging.
Conscious Qualities: Indigenous-owned, Organic Materials
Price Range: $
11. Topiku
Topiku asserts that they create “the world’s most sustainable hat.” They provide a carbon footprint report for their baseball cap and claim it has the lowest carbon footprint of any hat on the market. Their caps are artisan-made through fair-wage employment in Indonesia and feature one-of-a-kind prints. Topiku lists every material used to create their handmade caps, but they primarily use GOTS-certified organic cotton as well as recycled and upcycled materials.
Conscious Qualities: B-Corp Certified, Climate Neutral Certified, Handmade
Price Range: $
12. NINAKURU
This Ojai, California-based eco-luxe artisan brand designs and creates exceptional handmade hats and bags from responsibly-sourced materials including sustainable toquilla straw and cruelty-free wool. The NINAKURU team partners with skilled master artisans in Ecuador who craft the brand’s bespoke and ready-to-wear luxury products. By collaborating directly with these talented makers and sourcing high-quality materials that the artisans may have not otherwise been able to afford, NINAKURU ensures that these artisans earn living wages while preserving their centuries-old craft and traditions.
And did I mention NINAKURU’s hats are seriously stunning? They’re all beautiful, but if I had to pick favorites, I’d choose the Baxter and Juno styles!
Conscious Qualities: Fairly made, natural materials
Price Range: $$$
13. Pachacuti
Founded by Carry Somers (the co-founder of Fashion Revolution), Pachacuti is an ethical hat brand with exceptional sustainable hats made in Ecuador from consciously-sourced quality materials. To reduce waste and ensure sustainable production, each Pachacuti hat is custom-sewn by the brand’s own milliner.
The company also has implemented in-depth accountability and traceability practices in their supply chain. Pachacuti is able to trace back where each of their hats was woven and exactly where their straw was sourced.
Conscious Qualities: Fair Trade practices, transparent supply chain
Price Range: £ – ££
14. Greenpacha
Greenpacha founders Julieta and Florencia Gomez Gerbi partner with women weavers in Ecuador who create sustainable hats from toquilla straw using traditional techniques. The brand fuses contemporary design with age-old crafts to create exceptional hats that celebrate this pre-Colombian art craft.
Conscious Qualities: Heritage crafts, natural materials
Price Range: $$ – $$$
15. G. Viteri
An Ecuador-based accessories brand, G. Viteri’s straw hats and felt hats are all completely handmade by artisans in Ecuador using natural materials like toquilla straw and wool. Good on You reports that the brand also upcycles any offcuts and utilizes recycled post-consumer materials for their packaging.
Conscious Qualities: Natural material, low waste practices
Price Range: $ – $$
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Just like fashion has been overrun by fast fashion, home goods and furniture have similarly seen a rapid decline in quality. Rugs are no exception.
And similar to fashion, these cheap goods come at a high cost — namely, to the planet and to people. In fact carpet and rug production is rampant with exploitation.
On the other hand, fair trade rugs present the best of what a rug can bring to your home: artistry, craftsmanship, and heritage.
The brands featured in this guide are partnering with (and fairly paying!) skilled artisans who are using generations-old — and sometimes even centuries-old — techniques. These artisans are sustaining long lines of crafts, preserving their cultural diversity, and celebrating the richness of their time-honored crafts.
There’s simply no replacement for a timeless, quality artisan-made rug — they’re like pieces of art you can lay out on your floor or hang on your walls.
So, enjoy browsing through this guide to sustainable rug brands listed out below and best of luck on your search for the right fair trade rug!
Where to Find Ethical and Fair Trade Rugs
Note that this guide includes affiliates and partners. As always, brands must meet high standards for ethics and sustainability to be featured and all opinions are my own.
1. Obakki
Best for: warm-hued handwoven wool rugs
Categories: Area Rugs, Runners, Accent Rugs
Obakki partners with artisan weavers primarily in Oaxaca, Mexico — including individual makers like José — who hand-dyes and weaves rugs on a traditional pedal loom using locally sourced sheep’s wool and natural dyes derived from native plants. The brand also works with Rrres Design Studio, a Latin American studio dedicated to preserving traditional Oaxacan weaving techniques, and sources handwoven textiles from artisan communities beyond Mexico as well, including Morocco.
Each rug is made from 100% wool with no synthetic dyes or backing. Most pieces are made-to-order with a 4-8 week production window, shipped directly from the artisan partners.
Price Range: $460 – $4,159
Conscious Qualities: Natural Fibers, Natural Dyes, Craft Preservation
2. Kiliim
Best for: modern wool kilim rugs
Categories: Area Rugs, Accent Rugs
If you’re well-versed in rug terminology, you may recognize that this brand’s name looks similar to the word kilim.
Kiliim’s rug are made using authentic kilim rug craftsmanship by artisans in Egypt coming from generations of kilim artisans. To ensure ethical production and to support the preservation of this heritage craft, Kiliim pays living wages to all artisans.
Price Range: $95 – $4,812
Conscious Qualities: Ethical Production, Heritage Craft Preservation, Natural Fibers
3. Urban Natural
Best for: browsing fair trade rugs in lots of styles and sizes
Categories: Outdoor, Area Rugs, and Accent Rugs
This natural home and lifestyle retailer has a beautifully curated selection of sustainably-made rugs crafted with materials like jute, sisal, wool, and cotton.
Several brands on Urban Natural are also ethically hand-loomed or hand-knotted, such as Loloi — a GoodWeave partner — and Jaipur Living — a brand that partners with thousands of local artisans to sustain heritage crafts.
Price Range: $259 – $9,755
Conscious Qualities: Eco-Conscious Materials
4. LOOMY
Best for: pet-friendly and performance rugs
Categories: Area Rugs, Accent Rugs, Runners, Outdoor Rugs
Founded by a weaver, LOOMY is dedicated to crafting beautiful artisan-made rugs that will last for decades to come.
LOOMY partners with highly-skilled artisan weavers who craft quality rugs made from eco-minded materials like banana silk, jute, and recycled cotton, plus performance options made from 100% recycled polyester built to withstand whatever life brings you.
Price Range: $298 – $8,298
Conscious Qualities: Natural Fibers, Craft Preservation, Vintage Options
5. West Elm
Best for: fair trade rugs in on-trend mainstream styles
Categories: Area Rugs, Accent Rugs
West Elm is bringing ethical rugs to a broader market with their collection of Fair Trade Certified
wool and cotton rugs. While I recommend browsing the smaller shops listed above first, West Elm is supporting the movement to responsibly-made, fair trade rugs.
Price Range: $$$
Conscious Qualities: Fair Trade production, Majority Natural Materials
6. Jubi
Best for: Modern rugs in vibrant prints
Categories: Accent Rugs, Circle Rugs, Runners
Jubi is a Brooklyn studio founded by textile designer Cassie Dagostino. Every rug is handmade from New Zealand wool by fourth-generation weaving families in Bhadohi, India using traditional techniques. Each rug is made-to-order, meaning no excess stock. Since everything is made to order, expect between 3 and 7 weeks for your rug, depending on the technique used.
Conscious Qualities: Pays Above Market Rates, 100% Wool, Made-to-Order
Price Range: $228 – $668
Shipping: Free worldwide shipping