ROOM 1910
Handmade, tactile tools for exploring rivers and quiet waters.
American Lakes District
To follow a river is to read the land, its slow rearrangements, quiet signatures in current, depth, and drift. Every article from Room 1910 is a companion to that practice, tools for moving through the landscape with curiosity and care, whether on a river bend or a northern lake backwater. Observation matters more than skill, and every article is made to accompany exploration.
Objects of Issue
Room 1910 produces small-batch trout and float angling goods built on slow, seasonal release. Objects enter issue slowly, as fieldwork, season, and materials allow. Some are available now; others are in testing or awaiting refinement. Everything rolls out eventually.
2026
Issue No. 1
A lambswool fly patch, modular and removable with hook & loop panels, optionally accompanied by a navy operator-style cap. A small object of function and tactility, conceived within the practice of Angling Division and produced by hand in Room 1910. View the piece and consider its place in the unfolding collection. Quantity limited.
A lambswool fly patch with hook-and-loop backing, finished with a woven bottle-green AD label. This small object borrows the logic of morale patches without claiming rank, unit, or official status. It can be attached, removed, dropped, reattached, or relocated — designed to exist as a modular object rather than a fixed emblem. (Copper Johns, PTNs, Blue Olives, Prince Nymphs, and EHCs not included.)
Materials and construction reference mid-century theater-made patches and informal insignia, translated through contemporary handmade methods. The jacquard label functions as an author mark as much as branding. The lambswool introduces texture and softness, giving the patch a tactile presence whether it’s attached to a garment, cap, displayed independently, or slapped on your FAST Maritime.
This patch is the first object defining a new category of collectible, functional objects produced as part of the 1910 Outfitter Room, a practice where material objects commemorate an ongoing artistic investigation.
Each patch comes attached to a card noting its place in the first run of 45, marking it as part of an intentionally limited release. Future editions may follow, each distinct, continuing the exploration of this new category.
Purchase Options
Patch Only – The modular lambswool fly patch (hook-side backing). Includes sew-on paired loop to attach to any garment, cap, or display surface.
Patch + Cap Bundle – Includes the patch plus a navy operator-style cap. The cap is sourced from high-quality stock and finished with sewn loop backing to receive the patch. Shallow crown; fits smaller than standard caps. Metal adjustable buckle. 100% cotton. Patch can be removed or displayed independently.
Details
Applies to all options:
Removable lambswool fly patch
Hook-and-loop backing (is it FDE or khaki tan? You decide)
Woven AD label
Patch can be attached, removed, or displayed independently
Cap (bundle only):
Navy blue operator-style cap
Metal adjustable buckle
One size fits most
Shallow crown; fits smaller than standard caps
Production & Terms
Each piece is made by hand. Minor variation in stitching, seams, texture, and color is inherent to the process and part of the object.
All sales are final.
Pending Issues
No. 2 - In Field Testing
Fly Wallet
Mapping Toolset
Cypress Hand Lines
Tally & Ledger
No. 3 - On the Bench
Cypress Trout Rod
Field Cushion
River Vest
No. 4 - Scheduled
Shore Marker
Riverbank Field Desk
Bentwood Minnow Trap
Ethos
Room 1910 works from the belief that angling is a way of coming to know a landscape, its orders of water, hatches, drift lines, glacial histories, and private logic. Its objects are made for those who read a river like a chart, by contour, current, and the small signatures where life gathers. They follow the long tradition of anglers who take bearings from weather, water temperature, gradient, and memory.
In the American Lakes District, rivers shaped by ice fall from cold inland waters, and the work begins in field notebooks, bankside sketches, and old tackle rooms where tools carry knowledge forward. Each article is built to endure personal mileage and record mornings, seasons, and places fished. Its provenance begins here and continues with the waters it meets.
Provenance
Room 1910 is the outfitter’s room within my studio, founded in the American Lakes District. The articles issued from this room are made for field use and produced by hand in small runs, as time and conditions allow.
Natural history, hydrology, and angling tradition inform the work here. Each object is meant to accumulate its own record through use, repair, and the landscape knowledge gathered over time. Some pieces are developed in parallel with ANGLING DIVISION and reflect practices of seasonal return, observation, and record-keeping on rivers and quiet waters. Availability follows the pace of that work rather than demand.
