[MR] Ladies Kid Skin Glove - Instructions & Sources Neede

[Glynis Gwynedd]

There was a whole Compleat Anachronist on making gloves.

Can your gloves not be shipped back to you?


~Lady Glynis Gwynedd
Barony of Highland Foorde
"Have you hugged a harp today?"
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"To this end should a truly chivalrous man know something of arts and
courtesies as befits the quality of his character, else the world
shall think him nothing but a knuckle-dragging troglodyte in
vambraces." -Lady Swannoc



On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Lady Alexandra Scott
<xndra_scott at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Good evening, good friends ~
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> It seems that my vintage kid skin gloves departed our Kingdom by mistake and now reside in Drachenwald - never to be return.
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> This saddens me because this handsewn pair of gloves fit me "like a glove", so to speak.
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> So now, I am in search of resources.
>      One, a source for very thin, supple kid skin.
>      Two, instructions on how to sew them!
>            How, on earth, do the tiny stitches get sewn betwixt the long, slender channels?
>            (pictures would be beneficial, if there are any)
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> I really need help here and would prefer to try to make some, at least once.
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> Leads appreciated.
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> Graciously,
> Alexandra
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> Lady Alexandra
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> Alexandra Scott de Northumberland
> Argent, a stag statant and on a chief azure an increscent between two mullets of six points Or
> Canton of Aire Faucon
> Barony of Sacred Stone
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