GLOVES IN OLDEN TIMES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1666, 3 February 1904, Page 25

GLOVES IN OLDEN TIMES

The monks were the earliest European gloveniakers. As early as the time of Charlemagne that monarch granted the holy fathers of Sit-h n the unlim ted right of liu.nti.ng, in consideration of their manufacturing girdles, gloves, anyl book covers from the skins of the daer they kdled. There is an old saying -o the intent that, it takes three nations for the making of a glove; Spam to furnish the kid, France to cut it out, and England to put it together.