The term Peristyle refers to a colonnade surrounding a building or a courtyard. As a trained and licensed architect, I can’t help but using architecture as inspiration for many of my designs. This hat’s design is directly inspired by the hand-carved stone columns of Ancient Greek and Roman Architecture, typically used in peristyles. Proportioned on the Ionic Column, the hat band is designed to resemble the classic fillets of a column base using series of knits and purls. Using a carefully placed slipped stitch, column fluting emerges from the base, terminating elegantly at the top of the hat creating a ribbed dome. Using worsted weight yarn, this is a relatively simple design that requires relatively basic techniques and knits up quickly.