Gloves and Glove-making
By Mike Redwood
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Gloves and Glove-making - Mike Redwood
CONTENTS
GLOVES SPEAK MANY LANGUAGES
THE GLOVE-MAKING PROFESSION
MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURE
GLOVES IN FASHION
GLOVES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
FURTHER READING
PLACES TO VISIT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The coronation gloves of Elizabeth I (left) and Elizabeth II (right).
GLOVES SPEAK MANY LANGUAGES
Left: The Lord Chief Justice with his new gloves.
Right: Alderman Alison Gowman and members of the Court of the Glovers ready to present the gloves. The gauntlets worn by the Master remain in two parts; each year a new Master is appointed and obtains new perfectly fitting gloves for the hand and slides the historic gauntlet part over.
On 22 July 2014, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, The Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, was presented with a pair of gloves by Alison Gowman, the Master of the Worshipful Company of Glovers of London. The gloves were made using leather from Ethiopian hair sheep; the leather was prepared in Pittards tannery in Somerset, where glove leather has been produced since at least 1826. The gloves were hand cut and sewn by Chester Jefferies nearby in Dorset, and the cut leathers were sent to London to be exquisitely embroidered in gold thread by Jenny Adin-Christie, a Specialist Embroiderer and graduate of the Royal School of Needlework. While the names and companies have changed, this is a process that has continued for many centuries – the Worshipful Company of Glovers of London itself dates back to 1349.
Top Left: Jenny Adin-Christie embroidering the gloves.
Top Right: The completed embroidery on the leather before being sewn into gloves.
Bottom: The gloves ready for presentation to the Lord Chief Justice.
Such complex and apparently old-fashioned traditions remain at the heart of British society. While the origin, use and the development of gloves is generally based around utility and protection, there has always been a strong element of symbolism and status. Gloves are objects of high fashion and were worn by the aristocracy as a mark of distinction. From the earliest of times, and most certainly since the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, no well-dressed woman would appear in public without them. There is more history, romance and legend about gloves than about any other article of clothing.
The most famous and oldest surviving pair of gloves was found in 1923 by Howard Carter and the Earl of Carnarvon in the tomb of Tutankhamun. Gloves used 3,000 years ago in Egypt would have been mostly for riding horses but were available only to the rich and powerful. These particular gloves were for the pharaoh to use for ceremonial occasions. They were of linen cloth, tapestry woven with royal and sacred emblems. The fabric was cut and sewn into gloves with bronze needles. Around the wrist were patterns of lotus buds and flowers. Gloves were loose at that time and tapes were used to tie them round the wrists, which held them firmly to the hands.
The gloves of Tutankhamun.
The role of the pharaoh in ancient Egypt combined religion, monarchy and the law; these aspects were still in play at Runnymede in 1215 when bishops and barons met with the king to write the Magna Carta. Gloves were used for ceremonial events such as these, as they are today.
Gloves became a symbol of power as well as a badge of office. Before long they were one of the most significant items of dress. A monarch’s glove might be sent as a symbol of the delegation of power, and royal permission to hold a fair was demonstrated by the display of a large glove at the entrance.
A MONARCH’S GLOVE
At the coronation of our current Queen, Elizabeth II, one highly embroidered glove was an essential element of the ceremony, as gloves have been since the start of the ceremony itself, when Edgar the Peaceful was crowned in Bath in AD 973. The Worshipful Company of Glovers provided the glove for Elizabeth II and it was made by Dents of Warminster. It is of a gauntlet style and much larger than the ones given to the Lord Chief Justice. Her Majesty’s glove was ‘fit for a Queen’. The similarity