Thursday, December 07, 2006

Glove stretchers at Ines Gloves

In the old days people used a glove-stretcher to put leather gloves on.
Glove stretchers have a spring inside it which resists closing the two pieces of wood together.

Squeeze the glove-stretcher shut, and slip it into one of the fingers.
The glove-stretcher expands inside the finger.
The spring in the glove-stretcher pushes it open hard enough to actually stretch the leather, to make the glove bigger than it was when it was made.


I have now some antique Victorian glove stretchers available, to use with the tight glace gloves.
Interested?

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