Jump past the menu
AllChinaBuy Spreadsheet Hat Rack

Hat Rack › Knit hats, scarves and hoods

Beanies and scarves on the knit hook, hung by price

Cold-weather knits share a vocabulary and a set of photo traps, so beanies and scarves hang together here. Seven hats and eight scarves, from rib beanies around ¥25 to a houndstooth scarf at ¥270, priced as the catalogue showed them on 20 October 2026.

Knit hats and scarves picked for the rack

Beanies cluster in the lowest tier; scarves spread across all three, and several show wide option ranges.

Under ¥50 7 picks

¥50 to ¥119 4 picks

¥120 and up 4 picks

Rib, jacquard and fluffy yarn on knit hats

Most beanies are rib knits: raised vertical lines that stretch round the head and spring back. A chunky rib, like the stacked beanie at the bottom of the price list, has deep lines and a thick cuff; a fine rib lies flatter and folds into a neater cuff. Jacquard beanies knit the pattern into the fabric, so the colours show on the inside too, which is how to tell them from a printed pattern in close-ups.

Fluffy yarns, sold as brushed or mohair-style, photograph soft and slightly blurred on purpose. They shed a little in the first weeks of wear, and they hide stitching flaws as well as showing none. Speckled yarns, with flecks of other colours spun in, are easy to mistake for lint in a dim warehouse photo.

Cuffed beanies fold up at the brim; slouch beanies carry extra length at the back; shaped hats, like the cat-ear one, are knitted to a form and fit snugger than plain ones.

Woman wearing a fluffy mustard beanie with two knitted ear points
The cat-ear beanie in mustard, worn, which shows how the shaping sits. Catalogue photo, read 20 October 2026.Select the image to open the original size.

Scarf length, fringe and the hood-scarf hybrid

Scarf listings give length and width in centimetres when they give anything. Worn photos are a better guide: the houndstooth scarf hangs past the knee on a tall model, while the check scarf is shown wrapped twice at the neck. A scarf you want to wrap twice and still leave ends hanging needs to be long.

Fringes are knotted or cut. Cut fringes on brushed scarves fluff out with wear; knotted fringes hold their line. Two-tone check scarves, like the pair at the low end of the list, may show a different colour on each side, which is worth checking in the photos if you want one face of the pattern to show.

The knit hood scarf is a newer shape: a hood with long ends that tie under the chin or cross at the neck. Model photos are the only way to judge its depth, and this listing has several.

Woman wrapped in a thick pale blue and white check scarf
The brushed check scarf wrapped high, as the listing photographs it. Catalogue photo, read 20 October 2026.Select the image to open the original size.

Words for knits on Chinese listings

毛线帽 (máoxiànmào, yarn hat) and 针织帽 (zhēnzhīmào, knitted hat) both mean beanie; 冷帽 is a cold-weather hat. 罗纹 is rib, 粗针 is a chunky gauge, 细针 a fine gauge, and 卷边 a turned-up cuff. 提花 means jacquard. 加绒 or 加厚 says the hat is lined or thickened, which helps in a cold climate and doubles its bulk in a parcel.

Scarves are 围巾 (wéijīn); a shawl is 披肩. 流苏 is fringe, 格子 is check and 千鸟格 is houndstooth, literally a thousand-bird check. 连帽围巾 is a hooded scarf. Fibre words like 羊毛 (wool), 羊绒 (cashmere) and 腈纶 (acrylic) are the seller's claim; at these prices, expect acrylic or a blend unless the listing shows a composition label in a photo.

套装 marks a set, a hat and scarf sold together, and it is the word to look for when a listing's photos mix single pieces and pairs.

Green chunky rib beanie with a square woven label lying on a wooden bench
A chunky rib in green with a woven label on the cuff. Catalogue photo, read 20 October 2026.Select the image to open the original size.

Knit photos, warehouse checks and parcel bulk

Ask for photos that show the inside of a jacquard, the cuff unfolded and the scarf laid flat at full length. A knit can lose or gain a few centimetres when stretched for a photo, so a ruler beside it is worth more than a seller's number.

Knits are light but bulky. In practice buyers ask the agent to remove hangers, plastic bags and boxes, then pack knits round harder items where they double as padding. Scarves fold small; thick lined beanies do not.

Pilling, the small balls that form on rubbed yarn, rarely shows in a new-item photo. Judge yarn by the price and the stitch definition in close-ups, and expect cheaper acrylic knits to pill sooner than wool.

Model wearing a rust knitted hood with long ends tied at the neck
The hood scarf in rust on a model, the only way to judge hood depth. Catalogue photo, read 20 October 2026.Select the image to open the original size.