This vintage book contains a complete guide to making a gloves, with detailed directions for using leather, employing patterns, cutting, stitching, and everything else one might need to know. With simple instructions and a wealth of useful tips, this timeless handbook will be of considerable utility to readers wishing to make their own gloves. Contents include: “Gloving Leathers”, “Patterns”, “General Instructions for Marking Patterns”, “General Instructions on Cutting”, “Seams and Stitches”, “Needles, Threads and Pressing”, “Knots”, “Back Lines or Points, by Hand of Machine”, “Instructions for Washing and Cleaning Gloves”, “Furs”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on sewing gloves.

This classic guidebook is perfect for the leatherwork novice and enthusiast alike. Illustrated with useful diagrams, it introduces the craft of leatherworking, and instructs the reader in several methods such as appliqué, burning, patchwork, staining, and stitching, with a section dedicated to glove making. Contents include: Leather Crafting; LEATHERWORK introduction; Chapter 1 - tools and Their Uses; Chapter 2 - Modelling on Calf Skin; Chapter 3 - Staining on Calf or Cowhide; Chapter 4 - Practical instructions; GLOVE MAKING Chapter 1 - The Choice of Leathers; Chapter 2 - Patterns and How to Adapt Them; Chapter 3 - Making up; Chapter 4 – Fur-Backed Gloves. We are republishing this vintage work in a modern and affordable edition, complete with a newly written introduction and high quality reproductions of the original illustrations.

Cold hands may mean warm heart - but none of us want frozen digits. Cozy Gloves will be the answer for the whole family. This selection of fun, fast and practical finger-warmers transforms an essential item into an object of desire. The latest title in the Cozy series is packed with inspiring designs for every member of the family, from children's mittens to glamorous sparkling evening gloves and hard-wearing cabled patterns for the man in your life. Many knitters get quivering hands when attempting gloves, but this book guides anyone who has mastered the basics of knitting gently through the technique of knitting divisions in to three parts - frill or rib for wrist, wrist to knuckles and fingers and proves that it is nothing to be afraid of.

This vintage collection of articles offers insights into the fundamental practice of leathercraft, with a special focus on glovemaking. This early text on leather craft includes historical articles that would be both expensive and hard to find. It contains easy to follow instructions on making leather gloves, and of the designs and techniques involved. Contents include: Leather Crafting; Handbook for Shoe and Leather Processing; Be Clever with Leather - C W Read; Leather Work - including Glove Making; Leatherwork - F. J. Christopher. Extensively illustrated with instructional diagrams, it is suited to the leatherwork novice and enthusiast alike, with many details still of practical use today. We are republishing this rare work in a high quality, modern and affordable edition, featuring reproductions of the original artwork and a newly written introduction.

The baseball glove is a ubiquitous item, a crucial piece of equipment in the game of baseball, and it offers the opportunity to examine the production of material culture and social practice at numerous levels. Where and how is a glove made, and how does its manufacture square with the narratives surrounding its place in American cultural life? What are the myths, superstitions, and beliefs surrounding its acquisition, care, use, and significance? How does a glove function as the center of a web of cultural practices that illustrate how individuals relate to a consumer good as a symbol of memory, personal narrative, and national identity? How do the manufacturers of baseball gloves draw upon, promote, and in some sense create these practices? How do these practices and meanings change in other national and cultural contexts? The Baseball Glove offers students the opportunity to examine these questions in an engagingly written and illustrated book that promotes hands-on interaction with a quintessential item of material culture. At the same time, the book gives students the space for critical self-reflection about the place of material goods like sporting equipment in their lives, and it provides the chance to learn different methodological approaches to studying everyday objects.