Antique Leather Glove Making SCA Reference Inst CD '29!
Practical Glove Making
CD
Republication
Originally Published in
1929!
Up
for bid is a CD-ROM UNABRIDGED REPUBLICATION of the original Flapper Era
"Practical Glove Making" by Isabel M. Edwards and published by Pitman &
Sons in 1929! These folks provided some of the best instructions books in their
day for the leather arts! The experienced leather craft and glover
artesians of the early 1900's clamoured for this type of item and with good
reason! (Original is NOT for sale)
This HISTORIC item contains an UNABRIDGED 120 PAGES
includes a historic outline, photos, illustrations, written guidence
instructions and fundamentals for creating the extremely
handsome leatherwork items of an earlier, and more perfectionistic,
arts and crafts era!
There is much expert craftsman guidance provided
for the many differing types of gloves displayed in the listing collage for
your referencing and leather craft recreationist pleasure!
This CD's contents may be an ideal reference or guide
book for those interested in recreationist avenues and groups, such as, black
powder, mountain man, Victorian, Edwardian, Civil War, Society for Creative
Anacronism and more!
You will also find historical facts on this ancient
craft (from which leathers are best to use for each project to how to wash a
completed pair of gloves!) as well as various RARE and UNIQUE guidelines to
assist you along the way to recreating the handsome and practical leather items
of a earlier classy and gentile society!
These culturally historic instructions are characteristic of the
fancy work done by our ancestors during the earlier Victorian and Edwardian
eras! This is the perfect opportunity to purchase your own version of another
wonderful craft book revealing our heritage from early America and
Europe!
An Excerpt:
"The present book has been prepared in response to a
demand for something fuller and more completely illustrated than the two smaller
handbooks previously printed in my name. My one great object has been to help my
fellow workers to make gloves which will prove a pleasure when finished. Knowing
that this result could only be attained by scientific patterns, I have not
rested satisfied with general appreciation alone, but have had the satisfaction
of seeing my pupils turning out gloves which vied with those of the highest
professional standard. I venture to think this result is confirmed by the
illustrations of the gloves they have made."
(All gloves displayed
in this item's plates were produced by her students utilizing the
author's methods meticulously presented in the original book, and hence, in this
unabridged CD REPRODUCTION of said book.)
Contents
Preface
I. Gloving
Leathers
II.
Patterns
(Unlike our current
culture's handicraft books likelihood of just providing you with a general
one-size-fits-all glove pattern that may or may not fit the intended
wearer of your creations, this item gives explicit and detailed instructions on
how to produce a custom made pattern so your items "fit like a
glove!"
III. General
Method of Marking
IV. General
Method of Cutting
V. Seams and
Stitches
VI. Needles,
Threads, Pressing, etc.
VII.Knots
VIII. Back
Lines or Points
IX. Method of
Construction, Hand and Machine
X. Instructions
for Washing and Cleaning Gloves
XI.
Furs
Four
Series
(All Gloves for
Men, Ladies, and Juveniles)
Series 1.
Unlined Gloves,
with Standard Thumbs, Round (Nipped) Seams
Series 2.
Lined Gloves,
with Fur, Fleecy Lambs' Wool, Stockinette
Series 3.
Fur Back
Gloves, Lined Fur, Etc.
Series 4.
Sports and
Fancy Gloves
Instructions
for Moccasins ans Swiss Bags
Illustrations
Plate 1. Frontispiece
(Inset)
Plate 2.
Patterns of Minus, True, and Extension (Chapters II and III)
Plate 3. Skin
with Patterns Laid On (black-and-white inset)
Standard
Unlined
Plate 4.
Standard Pattern Pieces
Plate 5.
Cutting Finger Lines
Plate 6.
Thumb
Plate 7.
Fourchettes
Plate 8.
Quirk
Plate 8A.
Quirk
Plate 9. Men's
Slip-on
Plate 10.
Juvenile Slip-on
Plate 11. Men's
Button
Plate 12. Boys'
Button (lined)
Plate 13.
Buttonhole Construction
Plate 14.
Ladies' Motor Palm Gauntlet
Plate 15. Girl
Guide Officer's
Plate 16.
Elastic
Lined
Plate 17. Men's
Motor, Lined Fur
Plate 18.
Ladies' Visiting Ross-shire
Plate 19.
Mitt
Fur
Back
Plate 20. Men's
Motor, Slip=on (Type I)
Plate 21.
Ladies' Visiting (Type I)
Plate 22.
Junenile (Type VII)
Plate 23. Men's
Cuff Gauntlet (Type II)
Sport,
Etc.
Plate 24.
Hunting
Plate 25.
Golf
Plate 26.
Motor, Wool Sheep
Plate 27.
Garden and Hedging
Plate 28.
Housemaids'
Fancy
Plate 29.
Paris
Plate 30.
Threaded, Strap, Thonged
Plate 31.
Flat-seamed Ross-shire
Plate 32.
Moccasins
Plate 33. Swiss
Bag
Plus Various
Wonderful Advertisments from the same era!
Pretty much
everything you need to make the exquisite and fully functional leather work
gloves, and more, but the leather, threads, tools, etc. However, these all can
be readily found on eBay! You just have to hunt a little bit! :) Or, you can
obtain the contemporary materials at your nearest leather or crafting
store... | 
