Glove

Date1630-1650

MediumSilver and Gold Metallic Thread around Silk Core (Ground and Embroidery), Yellow Silk Threads (Knitted Ground and Embroidery), White Silk (Cuff Ground Fabric), White Silk Threads (Embroidery and Cuff Construction), Yellow Silk (Cuff Lining), Yellow Silk Thread (Cuff Construction), Paper (Internal Cuff Structure)

DimensionsLength: 13"; Width (at cuff): 7 1/4"
Note: knitted areas are worked 21 stitches per inch (horizontal);
25 stitches per inch (lengthwise)

Credit LineBequest of The Honorable Irwin Untermyer

Object number1974-110,1

DescriptionEcclesiastical Glove of knitted silk, trimmed with heavily padded couched metal thread and silk embroidery on the cuffs and on a medallion on the back of the hand. Design is composed of dense weaving foliage over the face of the glove originating from an embroidered heart laying over the fold at the interior of the wrist. At the center top of the glove is a design of leaves topped by a small crown. The medallion on the center back of the handalso features similar foliage motifs which converge at the center top of the circle to create a diamond. The gloves are faded yellow silk knitted in stockinette stitch in a guage 21 (width) x 25 (length) stitches per inch. The embroidery trimming consists of couched, padded, and raised embroidery worked in metallic threads wound around a core of silk on a ground of silk and metal threads.