Glove

History

The history of the gloves goes back to the Antiquité. In some Traduction S of the Odyssée of Homère, Laërte is described going in its Jardin with gloves in order to guard itself against the Mûre S savages (It is known as in other translations that Laërte had drawn its long sleeves on its hands). Hérodote, in its Investigation (440 av. J. - C.), tells how Léotychidas was accused by a gantelet filled of a sum of money which it had received like a Backhander. Xhénophon reported in words on the behavior of the Perses, that those carried pulley blocks in winter.

In Europe at the 13th century, certain women started to wear gloves like ornaments. They were made of flax and Soie and reached sometimes the elbow. At the 16th century, the queen Elisabeth launched the fashion of embroidered and crimped gloves richly invaluable stones. Henri II of England was buried with gloves on the hands. One also found gloves on the hands of the king Jean of England when its tomb was open in 1797, and on those of the king Edouard Ier when its tomb was open in 1774.

Glove factory

glove factory In France, the corporations of gantiers (going back to 1342) settled especially in areas where the intensive breeding of Chevreau X and lamb X was practiced, and where the Eau of the Rivière S was pure and favourable with the tanning: Dauphine Massif Central (Saint-Junien, Millau), , south of the Champagne, Niort (chamois-leather factory).

Today the gloves are manufactured in the whole world. The majority of the prototypes and the small series of gloves of luxury for women continuous to being manufactured in France and the productions are generally ensured in the factories of Eastern Europe and Asia, but also the Canada. Gloversville (of English glove meaning glove ) is a center of manufacture of gloves to the the United States. The manufacture of the gloves takes place more and more in Asia is.

Reeve or mitten

A pulley block is a glove without separation between the fingers (except for the inch). It allows a better protection of the hands against the cold, at the price of a less good mobility.

Mitten drift of the Former French mite (“Cat you”), allusion to the soft Fur of this animal. They are gloves whose fingers are not closed, as if they had been cut. Sometimes even the fingers are not delimited with the mitten covers only the palm and the top of the hand. Like the gloves, the mittens can go up more or less high on the arm. The mitten is generally regarded as a female accessory. They can go only or superimposed on glove. The mittens have the advantage of holding the hands with the heat while preserving the tactile sensitivity of the pulp of the fingers.

With the Quebec, however, mitten means pulley block .

If the mitten has initially a utility function leaving the end of the naked fingers free work, they become as of the 18th century of the fashion accessories, carried in interior by the ladies with an only esthetic aim. This fashion will remain until the 19th century. These mittens of interior were varied: knitted, embroidered, in hook, lattice or lace. They stopped with the wrist or the elbow.

Gantelet

The Gantelet is a kind of glove covered of iron blades on the back of the hand; it belongs to the armor. gantelet

Gloves of work

The gloves constitute a essential protective gears individual in many fields (the port of the gloves being sometimes obligatory in France according to the labor regulation):

Gloves of handling, to protect the hands against the Abrasion or crushing, often out of thick leather.
Protective gloves thermal for the people working in heat (Firemen, metallurgist S, welder S) or the cold (refrigeration technicians, workers in the cold countries, manipulators of Nitrogen or Helium liquid); oven gloves (in fabric thick, sometimes in Kevlar).
Protective gloves against the chemicals or biological (Laboratory S, chemical industry, professions of Health), in latex, PVC or Nitrile;

medical Gloves: the glove médico - surgical was used for the first time in 1894 by a doctor of the name of Halsted, for an surgical operation at the John-Hopkins hospital of Baltimore. The gloves with medical use are for the majority manufactured either starting from rubber natural (for example in latex) or synthetic (in the event of Allergie), or starting from Polymère S thermoplastics.

Protective gloves against the cuts (butchers), in metal scale or of type Coat of mail.

Various types of gloves

Gloves with Crispin , kind of gloves in vogue at the 17th century at the men and women. They are often characterized by a cuff with decorative leather reverse with fringes or embroidered.
Gloves of city
Gloves of married
orthopedic Gloves
Gloves of crockery
Gloves of toilet
thermal Gloves
Gloves speaking
Protective gloves (Do-it-yourself, etc)
Gloves of Gardening
Gloves of Surgery N
Gloves of fireman
In the Sport S:

Gloves of Baseball
Gloves of Boxing
Gloves of cyclist
Gloves of goalkeeper (Football)
Gloves of hockey
Gloves of motorcyclist
Gloves of Ski
Gloves for the Shooting with the arc and the Kyudo called Gake.

the pontifical gloves are liturgical accessories used mainly by the pope, the cardinals and the bishops. This use goes back to the 10th century.
the gloves of latexes, omnipresent in the Surgery, were created by the company Australia Ansell .
In the Virtual reality, one uses a Gant of data.
Gant Marionnette
the magician S often wear white gloves.
the cars are equipped with a “glove compartment”.

Materials used to manufacture gloves

Leather S and Skin X
Wool
Silk
rubber
latex
Nitrile
Neoprene
Vinyl

Standard S

Firemen:

standard IN 659: Protective gloves for firemen
standard ISO 15383: Protective gloves for firemen

These standards correspond to requirements of performance while defining the testing methods in laboratory which make it possible to evaluate them.

See too

medical Glove
Glove of data
Glove (hockey)
Sock with toes, also called " sock-gant" because of its concept
Witchblade, Cartoon putting in scene a magic gantelet)

External bonds

Card trade: Gantier
Stages of the manufacture of a leather glove
Allergy to the medical gloves
Standard of technical information n°306 on the gloves of French firemen (document pdf, 10p)

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