As always, stay tuned here on !comicstrips@lemmy.world for a slow trickle out of Jucika comics, but if you want to find more, here’s a good post with a large collection that /u/JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social posted last year: https://piefed.social/post/1258520
**Also, check out some Jucika fan art! https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels/p/2128207/the-best-of-jucika-fan-art-12-pieces-with-two-videos
**You can find more Jucika content in c/graphicnovels by using this search
Most likely straw, given the time the comic was drawn.
Not the crude straw hats you’d see on scarecrows mind you, but craftsman bleached straw finely cut and assembled.
As for the candle looking things - in the 50s to 70s in Hungary, fake candles with incandescent bulbs were very trending. My grandma had a crystal chandelier that had such sticks with special mini bulbs you could set to flicker like actual candles. That’s why the hat isn’t burning. An upscale restaurant in the 60s-70s would’ve likely had such a setup.
These were around into the 90s. Steak and Ale, man, those flickering bulbs with the incandescent screens. How they worked was kinda cool.
These still exist and they’re everywhere. To the extent that in the US the smaller light bulb screw base is literally called the “candelabra” base. I have such a chandelier in my house right now (a very cheap one, probably from the 1980s) only minus the tacky flicker bulbs.
My grandma also had one of those tacky lamps.