The Shtreimel (שטריימל) of the Bluzhev (Bluzhov) Rabbi

The Bluzhever Rebbe Ztvi Yehuda Shapira (צבי יהודה שפירא)

wearing a shtreimel with an inner hat (made from black velvet) of cylindric shape, which towers above the shtreimel itself

The Bluzhever rabbi is the only one wearing such a desgin (form)

Some information about the the Bluzhev dynasty, see here.

© picture: Saul Davis

Jewish boys from Blazowa (Bluzhev), Poland wearing a kasket or kasketel (קאסקעט קאסקעטל)

See my article  "The Jewish kasket or kasketel (קאסקעט קאסקעטל)"