Glove
an article of dress; a covering for the hand. Its use reaches back to GLOVE, an article of dress; a covera remote antiquity, for we are told in the Odyssey that Laertes, the farmer-king, a remote antiquity, for we are told in the thorns. Xenophon the use of gloves; but in later times they wore gloves to protect his hands from the sians for wearing gloves for keeping thorns. Xenophon also sneers at the Per- wore gloves to protect his hands from the their hands warm. on also sneers at the Perdays the Greeks and Romans scorned were used in Rome. The glove appears In their more robust to have become a well-known article of were used in Rome. The glove appears the use of gloves; but in later times they days the Greeks and Romans scorned dress in England about the 14th century, and corporations of glovers were in existence in the 15th century. dress in England about the 14th century, those made of leather; and the making of these constitute entirely separate those made of leather; and the making classes, woven and knitted gloves, and Modern gloves are of two distinct branches of manufacture. The manufacture of knitted or woven gloves is an industry allied to the hosiery trade, and the materials comprise all the ordinary Modern gloves are of two distinct fibers, the most important being silk and wool. In some cases these gloves are en- fibers, the most important being silk and the materials comprise all the ordinary industry allied to the hosiery trade, and facture of knitted or woven gloves is an branches of manufacture. The manubut in others the pieces are separately ing leather gloves. The manufacture is fashioned and sewed together as in makwidespread, but the headquarters of the thread and cloth glove trade are now Berlin and Saxony. The materials used for making lea tirely made and finished by knitting; the skins of deer, sheep and lambs, goats and kids, the latter being the most important, though far more "kid" gloves are made of sheep than of kid leather. The skins for military and other heavy gloves-doe or buck leather-are prepared by the ordinary process of tanning.
leather gloves is principally and kids, the latter being the most impor- the skins of deer, sheep and lambs, goats of dressing and finishing the leather used. Glacé gloves are those which are dressed, dyed, and polished on the hair or outer side of the skin, while suède gloves Kid gloves are of two principal kinds, purpose, and thus have the appearance of fine chamois. Paris and Grenoble are the chief seats of the French kid glove trade.
Military gloves are made at Niort and Vendôme. Brussels and Copenhagen are also important glove-making centers. In are carefully pared, smoothed, and d England, Worcester is the principal seat on the inner side of the skin for their of the glove industry; the so-called English dogskin gloves made from the skins of Cape sheep, the English manufacturers are without rivals. dyed In feudal times the challenge to single combat was given by the casting down of the glove; and an ancient and more pleasing ceren sists in the presentation of white gloves to a judge presiding over an assize industry; and in a specialty, ceremonial still observed conwhich no cases come up for trial GLOVERSVILLE