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Leather Welding Gloves with Gauntlet Cuffs
Welders and smiths wear heavy leather gloves, because hot spatter melts through synthetic cloth. Cut the hand, thumb and a wide gauntlet cuff from thick leather, and sew them with waxed linen thread in small even stitches, the seams held in a vice as glove makers did.
The picture: leather gauntlet gloves with wide cuffs.
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Instructions
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Make the pattern
Make the pattern
Trace your hand, fingers slightly apart, on paper. Add a seam allowance of about 6 mm and room to move (our sizes). Draw the thumb as a separate piece and a cuff that flares toward the elbow.
Materials for this step:
Paper2 sheetsTools needed:
Ruler
Scissors2
2
Cut the leather
Cut the leather
Chalk the pattern onto thick leather, with the stretch running across the hand, and cut a front, a back, a thumb and a cuff for each glove, the second glove mirrored.
Materials for this step:
Vegetable Tanned Leather3 sq ftTools needed:
Tailor's Chalk
Utility Knife3
3
Set in the thumb
Set in the thumb
Cut the thumb hole in the front piece and sew the thumb in, inside out.
Materials for this step:
Waxed Linen Thread5 mTools needed:
Awl
Sewing Needle4
4
Sew the hand
Sew the hand
Clamp the edges of front and back together in the vice between two strips of wood and sew round the fingers with small even stitches, pricking each hole with the awl. Turn the glove right side out.
Materials for this step:
Waxed Linen Thread10 mTools needed:
Bench ViseAwlSewing Needle5
5
Add the cuff
Add the cuff
Sew the cuff into a tube and stitch it round the wrist of the glove, overlapping by a finger's width.
Materials for this step:
Waxed Linen Thread5 mTools needed:
AwlSewing Needle6
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Leather for a pair
Leather for a pair
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