Pair of cream leather man’s ceremonial gloves
with silk gauntlet cuffs embroidered in silk and gold metal thread
and seed pearls, early 17th century, ©The Gloves' Collections
Trust
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Detail of cream leather man’s gauntlet glove
embroidered in gold metal thread, early 17th century, ©The
Gloves' Collections Trust
The Fashion Museum is delighted to announce that some of the
oldest, rarest and most precious objects in their care will be
shown in a new display at the end of September 2007.
All of the gloves are on loan to the Fashion Museum from The
Gloves’ Collections Trust, a special body set up by the Worshipful
Company of Glovers of London to care for what is possibly the
finest collection of historic gloves in the world.
The display at the Fashion Museum includes twenty pairs of
gloves from this outstanding collection, all intricately
embroidered in a variety of materials from tiny seed pearls to
sparkling metal thread.
Some of the gloves are patterned, some show figures and animals
(such as the mythological motif of the’pelican in her piety’); all
are highly decorative, and all have to be seen to be believed.
To see a press release click
here.