The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-06-12

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on the back called tambouring. they
will now be laid upon a block and
punctured with as many holes as there
are to be stitches in the tsmbour-work.
Before leaving this room, the size OF
the gloves is stamped on the inside OF
one, and a consecutive or matching
number is written inside each of the
two pieces of leather that are now an
embryo pair of gloves, so that if, in
any of the subsequent processes, they
should be, ccidentally separated, they
may be identified and brought together
again. After they have been looked
over and carefully perfected with scis
sors wherever the punch may have left
a jagged edge, they are ready to re
sumo their travels.
Tied up in bundles of a dozen, they
are given to women, who do the orna.
mental work on the back of the gloves.
Some of these women work on the
premises. and others at home. Most
of the tambouring, which is very pop
ular, is done in cottage homes. En-
tering one of these cottages, you may
see a woman rocking q cradle with one
foot, and giving an occasional glance
at the dinner cooking on the fire, while
she bends oyer a frame on which the
gloves are stretched, and with q
crochet-hook, and apparently little
more attention than a knitter gives to
her stocking, she quickly adds those
three times three rows of silk-work
up what will be the back of the gloves.
Carrying back the gloves to the fac,
tory, she will receive nincpcnce a dozen
for her work.
The gloves are next given out to
other women, who also work at home.
to be Stitchri-that is. to have the
fingers completed and the thumbs put
in. This is now nearly all done by a
reccntly-inycnted and cleyerly-adapted
sewing-machine, the needle of which
comes down on the tip of an upright
iron finger. Gloves are not all stitched
in the immediate neighborhood of the
factories, but are often sen long dis
tances into remote country villages,
where, work being scarce, labor is
cheap. And to facilitate this, a class
of middle men Cor womcn) has grown
up-people who came in from the
country to the factories, and take away
a hundred or a hundred and fifty
dozen a week. which they distribute
among the women of the village in
which they live. collect again when
finished, and bring back to the fac
tory. These putters-out or bogmen
are paid the usual price, some half
crown a dozen for the stitching. and
make their own bargain with the
actual workers. They are generally
supposed to make a profit of about
]threepcnce a dozen; but. as a matter
Of fact, being shop-keepcrs, they COM
monty make two profits-one on the
gloves, and another on the goods the
sewers purchase at their shops. These
people have a somewhat difficult part
to play, as they stand between two
fires; but they are most useful class,
and carry work and its rewards into
many villages where, but for them,
they would never come. They have
done much to stay the exodus Of the
population from this part of the agri-
cultural districts, enabling parents to
keep their Young people, and cS-
pecially their young women, at home,
instead of sending them to the great
towns to seek for employment.
Having come back from the stitchers,
the gloves are sent out once more. If
are heavy winter gloves, they are
sent out to be lined with warm soft
material. If they are lighter
they are at nee dispatched to
welted-that is, to have the binding
round the top and the opening at
he wrist. The buttons or clasps, as the
'ase may be, are next added: that
they come back to the factory
or the last time, and pass the final ex-
.mination.
They have still a rough, tumbled, |
rtnished look, which would prove
ny thing but tempting to a purchaser.
hey are now forwarded to the laying
ut room, where they are stretched
18th ordinary glovc-stretchers, and
hen put on heated steel hands, which
axe ont all the creases and improve
heir appearance. Nothing now re-
lalnS but to assert them. to put them
? in neat bundles according to size.
o pack them in boxes and to send
hem TO market.
The special gloves that wo have been
GLOWING through all their stages are
hose which are known in the trade
IS grain goods, and are sold to the
public under the name of dogskin,
and other names, each name in
heating some pecuIiarityi the quality
nd finish of the leather. Many other
.inds Of gloves are made in the dis
rict, such as calf and buck and doe
kin; the calf gloves are made from
calf-skins, and the buck and
Toe from English lamb-skins. There
5 also a large manufacture of fabric
other words, of gloves made
It cotton, wooden, silk or merino
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