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joeri
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posted 11-11-2000 11:17 AM

Hello!
I am new to this list but I am a 14th century reenactor who portays a very poor soldiers widow suring the 100 years war.
It is getting very cold here in holland these days so I started wondering about gloves in medieval europe.
Can anyone help me with some information?
Where there gloves in those days, did commoners wear them, how did they look, what where they made of etc.
Let me know, because its getting cold!
Thank you!

Joeri Teeuwisse

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Jamie & Christine
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posted 11-12-2000 05:33 PM

Joeri,

I've seen many contemporary images of gloves worn by poor farmers and shepherds that are of a two-finger and thumb style. I'll take a look at my references and let you know where you can see an example of these.

Jamie

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hauptfrau
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posted 11-12-2000 08:20 PM

I know exactly the style you're thinking of Jamie.

I thought the shepards in the Portinari Alterpiece by van der Goes were wearing them, but only the teeny weeny guy in the back is. I'll have to look around myself.

How is it that these references are never where you think they are when you go to find them???

Gwen

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Anne-Marie
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posted 11-13-2000 11:35 AM

hey all from AM
there's a great shot of the cool mittens on the shepard in Robert Campin's "Nativity". Theres a great detail on pg 48 in the Early Flemish Painting book by Jean-Claude Frere.

they even look either fur lined or made of skin with the fuzz on the inside. Toasty!

--AM, who has a regualr pair of mittens out of sheepskin like that and they're awfully nice...

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Dave Key
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posted 11-30-2000 11:11 AM

The Lutterl Psalter has illustrations of peasants in 2-fingered mittens and these also appear in misericords in England. Typically these are made with a button on one and a loop/hole on the othr so they can be attached and then hooked over the belt.

A surviving mitten from the Thames foreshore (dated to late c15th early c16th) now in the Museum of London has a simple cut at the cuff which from the wear looks like it might be of this style.

The leather for this mitten is simple tanned leather cut as tw pieces ... the hand (folded over and stitched along the top an one side), and the thumb.
Very simple, but effective.

Cheers
Dave

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