NC Rooted
A cowboy hat lettered NC Rooted on a barnwood bench beside a smoking burn pen, with a woman in a suede hat standing in a field at dusk

Custom Hand‑burned Designs in the NC Mountains

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Hand-Burned Hats, Bags and More

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One of a kind designs

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Tan suede wide-brim hat with a hand-burned ring of wildflowers around the brim Full-brim wildflowers Wide brim · tan Skull hand-burned into a distressed leather hat crown Skull Leather crown · oak Blush suede hat hand-burned with a horse, wildflowers, and the name Olive Olive Name and horse · blush
Heather in a hand-burned hat, holding a lasso in front of the Love Valley welcome sign
Heather Houser hand-burning a design at her NC Rooted market booth

Made in the North Carolina mountains

NC Rooted is Heather Houser. It started with a wood-burning pen and the ridgelines that gave the shop its name. Every piece is drawn and burned by hand, so yours is the only one of it.

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Got a design in your head? Let's burn it in.

Tell Heather what you are picturing, pick your hat and band, and she will make it one of a kind. Free pickup in Ashe or Wilkes County, or shipped to you anywhere.

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