Available in 18 delicious colors to keep your ears warm, our beanies are 100% hypoallergenic acrylic and constructed from an extra dense knit, ideal for embroidered applications. One size fits all, but expect it to feel snug if your head is on the larger side.
The full color lineup includes black, dark grey, heather grey, white, brown, neon / blaze orange, gold, neon / safety yellow, pink, maroon, red, purple, royal, navy, turquoise, safety / neon green, forest, and olive.
As with hats and shirts, please keep our embroidery guidelines in mind. Thread colors are limited to our standard palette. Max size is 3.75" wide by 2.25" tall. Stay away from small details that may be difficult to execute. If you have any questions, ask us. We’re happy to help.
In addition to launching on demand embroidered beanies, we found time here in early 2026 to make some much needed improvements to site performance. We migrated servers in January (did you notice?), leaving our long, long time host Linode for something with significantly higher performance per dollar. Linode was a fantastic partner for the entire life of Cotton Bureau and we can still recommend them for fantastic reliability and user experience, but times have changed and so have we. Our needs have increased over the years. To keep costs in check, we had to find something else.
If you’re curious, we ultimately decided to switch to Vultr after reviewing our options. (Link is an affiliate code since why not. Get $300 in server credits when you sign up.) We’ve been more than happy with the service. We doubled our CPU, increased storage by 350%, and added over 6X the RAM. So far, so good. Everything is faster for a very modest increase in our monthly server bill.
Image Rendering
Beyond hardware improvements, we put most of our effort in February toward making smarter choices about how and when to render images. Since moving from pre-rendering to dynamic rendering in 2023, latency on our product and gallery pages due to slow image loading has been one of our biggest frustrations. Thankfully, with a combination of more sophisticated caching and de-duplication, our most frequently accessed products now load instantly in most cases.
More Updates
While we have a lengthy list of features and products we still intend to bring to Cotton Bureau, there is an equally long list of neglected parts of the site that desperately need our attention. To that end, a big focus for us in 2026 is building a smoother and more polished experience across the board. We’ve got bugs to squash and optimizations to make, and it’s already started. Bulk image downloading for created products is back. Pre-order campaign sales figures can now be optionally hidden. Shop navigation has been improved. Altogether, hundreds of small changes have been made to streamline operations and user experience.
The Future
We have one major quality of life feature in progress right now, though we’re not sure exactly when it will drop. Currently our best estimate is April. All I can say at the moment is that we may finally be able to resolve an issue going that goes all the way back to the beginning of Cotton Bureau on demand apparel, and we couldn’t be more excited.
It was our pleasure to attend Brand New Conference last year in our home town. As usual, an outrageous level of attention to detail by Armin and Bryony, and the venue was spectacular.
I’ll let you in on a little secret. All of the good recipes are in books. That’s a tad inconvenient when you need to find the best way to make pita at home or forgot to make a list of ingredients before heading to the store.
So, here’s a tiny, heartfelt recommendation for a useful website you’ve probably never heard of: Eat Your Books. Sign up for an account and enter your cookbooks to get an instant digital catalog of every recipe you own — with photos!
Don’t miss the iPhone app. It’s called CookShelf. Don’t ask me why.
These designs are pre-order only and guaranteed to be printed at the highest possible quality exclusively on our finest tees, sweatshirts, and hoodies.
If this isn’t the shirt for you, don’t worry. Every Thursday we’ll be releasing a new Cotton Bureau Shirt Club design, available for one week only. Sale ends Thursday, Feb. 5 at 8 PM ET.
Find your favorite style below and join the club. You’ll be glad you did.
Today’s the last day of the year to order on demand tees shipping in time for holidays (use code LASTCHANCE25 for free shipping), but that doesn’t mean it’s too late for us to squeeze one more gift under the Christmas tree. We’ve been hard at work refreshing the old catalog starting with the fan-favorite premium heavyweight 100% cotton tee: Comfort Colors 1717.
Putting the Colors in Comfort Colors, we’ve got 13 more including (right to left) Navy, Lagoon Blue, Island Reef, Neon Lemon, Neon Pink, Red, Brick, Espresso. Not pictured, we’ve also added Chili, Seafoam, Sapphire, Chalky Mint, and Butter. Use ‘em, buy ‘em, enjoy ‘em.
In even bigger news (because sweatshirts run large, you see), we’ve stepped up our game in the premium heavyweight hoodie department. Joining the lineup officially earlier this month, it’s Comfort Colors 1567 in 8 entrancing colors: Chalky Mint, Royal, Indigo, Navy, Maroon, Charcoal, Grey, White.
At 9.5oz / yard, it’s the kind of hoodie you can wear outside in the winter and not even feel a chill in the air.
Keeping it heavy, we just added our second long-sleeve tee option. Matching the premium midweight 3501 from Bella + Canvas, we now have the 3511. Available in seven solid colors (Black, Navy, Forest, Red, Grey, Natural, and White), the 3511 is the perfect companion to keep you warm while you work — or lounge — all winter long.
Like Comfort Colors 1567 and 1717, we’ve done our best to automatically update all on demand products on the site to use the latest and greatest shirts. If you see a design you like, chances are these new styles will be an option at checkout.
NB: We were able to secure access to the classic 3501 in Red, Dark Grey Heather, Heather Forest as well.
Moving on from the heavies, say hello to the longs. While not present in a wide array of colors, we are pleased to add a premium long-body tee from Next Level, the 3602. Do you really even need shirts that aren’t black or white anyway? (If you do, we also have royal, heavy metal, and heather grey.)
For the sake of space and time, we’ll lump this last color update together. We’ve got nine new ones in our ladies’ true to size tee, the Bella + Canvas 6400. Please enjoy Red, Berry, Maroon, Purple, Royal, Carolina Blue, Leaf, Natural, and Vintage White. In other women’s tee news, the 100% cotton junior fit Next Level 3600 now comes in Vibrant Yellow, Indigo, Kelly Green, Light Olive, Light Blue, Tahiti Blue, and Natural and we snuck in the Next Level 6710 (tri-blend) in Purple Rush.
Okay, lightning round. We’ve got several new colors in premium men’s tees including Next Level 3600 Dark Chocolate, Light Grey, Cream, and Military Green; Next Level 6010 Tahiti Blue; and and Next Level 6210 in Black, Charcoal, Dark Heather Grey, Midnight Navy, and White.
The basic men’s tees haven’t been entirely neglected. Gildan 5000 joins the party with Azalea, Cardinal Red, Carolina Blue, Coral Silk, Dark Heather, Graphite Heather, Heliconia, Ice Grey, Kiwi, Light Pink, Maroon, Natural, Purple, Sand, Sapphire, Turf Green, Violet, and Yellow Haze.
Tank tops have sadly been in flux this year with Bella + Canvas discontinuing several of our favorite colors (RIP Charcoal Black, Aqua, and True Royal tri-blends). To shore up the line, we were able to bring in Black, Dark Grey, Red, True Royal, and White solid cottons plus Athletic Heather.
Finally for the smallest Cotton Bureau friends, we have four new infant bodysuit colors, Butter, Charcoal, Apple, and Kelly.
That’s it. We’ll see you in the new year. Have a jolly holiday. Get outside, take a lap. Inhale, exhale. It’ll be January before you know it.
