The morning call., 1890-10-26
GLOVES
That We're Worn in The Days Of
Charlemagne and De Medicis.

| carving of a long glove mas been found in q
hole where cave-dwellers once lived. Just
when these strange people existed has not
been decided but it was thousands and
thousands of years ago, and the sculptured
glove is of the same shape as he many but
ton ones worn by fashionable ladies of the
present. The gloves of the anti-glacial oc-
cupants of cave are supposed to have been
made of Roughly dressed, skin-sewn with
needles of bone. But they were worn just
the same, and the general pattern remains
unchanged. There is plenty OF other EVIL
dence that gloves are of very remote origin,
although none that goes back so far The
Anglo-SaXons, according to a writer for the
New York Commercial Advertiser, wore
gloves in the seventh century, but the men
were the ones then TO observe the custom,
the ladies covering their hands with their
sleeves. Earlier than this Norman officials
and high personages of that country COW
cred their hands, and in many places in the
Bible the word shoe is used when schol-
ars maintain it means glove
The glove trade Is under great gre IT. Obligations
granted to the abbot and monks OF Sithin
an unlimited right of hunting for making
their gloves and girdles OF the skins OF the
deer they killed, and also for covers Tor
their books. But gloves had a nearer con-
nection with the church than the industry
of the monastery. They had distinctive en-
pIoyment in the rites and services. They
were worn by the priests officiating. The
laity we're expected to take off their gloves
in church, while ecclesiastics alone might
wear them, a reversal of our modern fash
ions. The symbolism of the church did not
forget the glove as gifted with hidden sig
nificance. Bruno, Bishop of Segni,' says
that ''they are made OF linen to denote that
the hands they cover should be chaste, clean
and free from all impurity." The gloves on
the hands of Boniface VIII at the time of
his interment were Of white silk, beautifully
wrought with pearls Gloves are stlll used
by Roman Catholic Bishops and advertised
in the lists of clerical necessaries. Accord
ing to st. Charles Borromeo, Bishops
gloves should have golden circle on the
outside, and this is seen on the gloves Of
Bishop William of Wykeham, preserved IN
New College. Oxford
Gloves were, in 1416 often set with pre-
cious stones, and sufficiently valuable to
be left as Iegacies. The jeweled gloves OF
st. Martial were said to have rebnked an act
of sacriege. The gloves of Bishop Grave
send, worked with gold and enamel, were
priced at 60. great sum in 1910 But the
Sturdier Bishop Button wore thick yellow
leather gloves, at 1Od a pair. However, that
love of luxury and of vestments which then,
as now, threatened to sap a certain division
of the church, led to the passage of sumptu-
airy restrictions. The clergy might not
wear gloves" red or green or striped;
nor gloves" Monks were not to wear gloves
of deerskin, but were to content themselves
with gloves of sheepskin. But gloves were
still made of costly material for Bishops and
the higher clergy, who were then adorned
with Jewels, in spite of sumptuary laws.
Bishop Ricultus, who died in 912, left as an
important legacy pair of gloves, and the
earliest silk gloves on record were found en-
the hands of Thomas Beckett.
Gloves have ever been an accessory TO
the dress of royalty. They have place in
the regalia. and we read OF purple gloves,
0pnamented with pearls and precious stones,
which were deemed ensigns of imperial dig
mites. They were so intimately connected
with kingly power that monarchs were in
vested with authority by the delivery of
glove. The knights glove or gauntlet has
more that is romantic and Symbullcal at
ia he'd than all others. The word comes
from the early French word giant mean
ing the hand. AS distinctive article of de-
fensive dress, the gauntlet did not come
into use until the thirteenth century. In tile
time of Edward | q leather glove, covered
with mail. was introduced, and during the
reign of Edward III spikes of steel were
fixed to the knuckes. The gauntlet of Ed
ward the Black Prince was formidable
affair, with its steel goads on the back of
the hand, the very appearance being calcu-
lated TO inspire terror. The buff gloves of
CromwelPs troopers were protected at the
wrist by metal scale work, well arranged
TO break sword blow. Perfumed gloves
were brought from Italy by Edward We're,
Earl of Oxford, after his exile, and his
present to Queen Elizabeth of a pair with
embroidered roses is mentioned in history.
But the refinement of perfumed gloves had
been known for three centuries in France
before the days of the Virgin Queen, aud in
Spain the gloves were famous for the scent
impaired to them long before her day. The
luxurious court OF Charles Ii used perfumed
gloves, and those trimmed and laced as fine
as NelPs' were mentioned in comedy.
Louis XIV also issued letters patent of his
marchands maitres gautiers perfeumeurs. In
Venice, where the love of dress was con-
spicuous, perlumed gloves were introduced
by a dOgess as early as 1911.
Gloves of chicken skin were in vogue in the
early part of the seventeenth century. These
were used AT night to give the hand white
ness and deiicacy. Thin and delicate gloves
were first made at Limerick. They were so
thin that they could be put in a walnut shell.
Cough says that dark gloves were worn by
all women before the Reformation. But this
is not absolutely correct, for Chaueer speaks
in his translation of the "Romaunt of the
Rose of idlenesS:
And for to keep her hands fayre.
Of gloves white she had pair.
The ladies of the court of Catherine de
Medicis carried their gloves in their hands
or tucked them under their girdles. Mary,
Queen of Scots, wore gloves with richly en-
broidered wrists on the morning of her exc
cution. giving them to friend at the last
moment They were made Of light, cool,
buff-colored leather, the elaborate embroi- =
derry on the gauntlet being worked with sill
yer wire anu silk of various colorS. The
roses are of pale and dark blue, and two
shades of very pale crimson; the foliage
represents trees, and is composed of two
shades of eSthetic green. A bird in flight,
with a long tail, figures among the work
The embroidered gloves for women of the
sixteenth century were very beautiful. made
Of the gauntlet shape and richly embroidered
on the cuff. They were of cheveril leather;
so it was said of a man, Is he hath a cheverii
conscience "-one that would stretch easily.
Cheveril was made Of parchment, by the use
of alum and the white of eggs. Goatskin
was the foundation.
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