Squame Hat was inspired by a silk screen design I worked on a while ago. I wanted to give it a new life and transformed the simple design to a knitting pattern. Still working on some adjustments.

Squama (or squamous, plural squame) refers to a structure shaped like the scale of a fish.

In most biological nomenclature, a scale (Greek λέπιδ lepid, Latin squama) is a small rigid plate that grows out of an animal’s skin to provide protection. In lepidopteran (butterfly and moth) species, scales are plates on the surface of the insect wing, and provide coloration. Scales are quite common and have evolved multiple times with varying structure and function.