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glovs-mittns-lnks – 9/27/05

A set of web links to information on medieval gloves and mittens by Dame Aoife Finn of Ynos Mon.

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From: aoife at scatoday.net

Subject: [Aoife-Links] By My Hand: Gloves and Mittens

Date: September 27, 2005 6:17:37 AM CDT

To: aoife-links at scatoday.net

Greetings, my Faithful Readers!

This week's list is all about keeping your hands toasty and spiffy looking in the upcoming cooler autumn weather. Let's face it, those skiing gloves are going to look mighty out-of-place with your garb. If you've wondered about the historical aspects of mittens and gloves, don't worry--they predate history! So if your planned gloves have five fingers, or only three, or if you definitely want a certain ethnic style of mittens, the following links are for you.

As always, please share this where a ready audience can be found.

Cheers!

Aoife

Dame Aoife Finn of Ynos Mon

Riverouge

Endless Hills

Aethelmearc

Stefan's Florlegium-gloves.msg

http://www.florilegium.org/files/ACCESS/gloves-msg.html">http://www.florilegium.org/files/ACCESS/gloves-msg.html

(Excerpt from ONE message of many) As it happens, I just read a book about the knitting technique that Arastorm (sp?) refers to. You knit a pair of

wool mittens several sizes too big, and then you felt them.

This involves putting the mittens in very hot water, and rubbing

them over a felting board (looks somewhat like a washboard, only

with slightly sharper edges.) You keep doing this until they've

shrunk enough to fit. Apparently (I haven't tried the technique

yet, though I intend to), this results in water resistant

and wind resistant mitts that keep you warm even when soaking

wet (a quality which I am sure Maritime fishermen appreciate).

3 Fingered Gloves by I Marc Carlson

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/cloth/gloves/gloves.htm">http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/cloth/gloves/gloves.htm

(Site Excerpt) Back in Jan 2002, a question was raised on the 75 Years Group at Yahoogroups (A re-enactment discussion list focusing on c1300) regarding the use of gloves in the 1300s. Although a number of depictions of the more familiar 5 fingered gloves were seen, there were also several examples of 3 fingered gloves found in pictures from the 1300s and 1400s by "Stella", "Roel Oosterop", "Joeri Teeuwisse", "Melanie Wilson", and "Catherine Mensforth".

The Place of Gloves in Free Masonry

http://www.freemasonry.org/leonzeldis/white_gloves.htm">http://www.freemasonry.org/leonzeldis/white_gloves.htm

This is a treatise on the history of gloves. I'll bet all you white glove wearers out there didn't know about the link between color and certain organizations....

More Medieval Egyptian Knitting

http://home.earthlink.net/~lilinah/Knitting/EgyptKnit4.html">http://home.earthlink.net/~lilinah/Knitting/EgyptKnit4.html

(Site Excerpt) These are knit of fingering weight wool, except for the space dyed stripes, which is DK weight. The space dyed yarn is not a blue-purple as it appears in this scan; it is actually a very muted color. I am using US size 1 needles, my gauge is 9 stitches and 10 rows per inch. They are knit beginning at the tip and worked toward the cuff, like many socks and mittens in Eastern Europe, Turkey, and other parts of Northern Europe

Gloves of Emperor Frederick II

http://medieval.webcon.net.au/extant_gloves_frederick_ii.html">http://medieval.webcon.net.au/extant_gloves_frederick_ii.html

(Site excerpt) These gloves were made in the early 13th century for the coronation of Emperor Frederick II. As with many of the other sumptuous garments that make up the Insignia of the Holy Roman Empire, the gloves were made in the Royal Workshops of Sicily. These gloves were worn by the Emperor at his coronation in 1220.

The Renaissance Tailor-From Pattern to Hand

http://www.vertetsable.com/demos_gloves.htm">http://www.vertetsable.com/demos_gloves.htm

(Site Excerpt) The most difficult part of making gloves is not in the construction. Nor is it in the drafting of the pattern (although there are some surprises there). Nope... the most difficult part of making gloves lies in choosing the proper materials and preparing those materials. I can hear you saying to yourself, "wait a minute... that's always been the easy part!". Well, normally, it is.

Costumer's Manifesto: Elizabethan Gauntlet Mittens

http://www.glove.org/gallery/elizmit.asp">http://www.glove.org/gallery/elizmit.asp