Reading list for Gloves

Arnold, Janet. Queen Elizabeth’s Wardrobe Unlock’d. W. S. Maney and Son, Leeds, 1988.

Beck, Samuel W. Gloves: Their Annals and Associations – A Chapter of Trade and Social History. Hamilton, Adams and Co., London, 1883.

Bonneville, Françoise de. Le Gant. Paris: Éditions du Regard, 1999.

Collins, C. Cody. Love of a Glove. Fairchild Publishing, New York, 1947.

Cumming, Valerie. Gloves (The Costume Accessories Series). B. T. Batsford, London, 1982.

Green, Anne. Gloves, an Intimste History. Reaktion Books Ltd, London, 2021.

Hazzlewood, J. W. (ed). Pittards 1826–1976. Privately printed, 1976.

Hull, William. The History of the Glove Trade. Effingham Wilson, London, 1834.

JBF Industries. Glove Leathers. Gloversville, New York, undated, c. 1970.

Keers, Paul. A Gentleman’s Wardrobe. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1987.

Lawson-Clarke, Peter. The Glovers of Yeovil. P. Lawson-Clarke, Yeovil, 1996.

McMartin, Barbara. The Glove Cities: How a People and their Craft Built Two Cities. Lake View Press, New York, 1999.

Morgan, J. C. Gloves: Across the Hands of Time. Privately printed, 1985.

Morris Lester, Katherine, and Bess, Viola. Accessories of Dress: An Illustrated History of the Frills and Furbelows of Fashion. Peoria, Illinois, 1940. (Republished as Accessories of Dress: Illustrated Encyclopaedia, by Dover Publications Inc., New York, 2004.)

Noake, John. Noake’s Guide to Worcestershire. Longman, London, 1868.

Palmer, N. W. and Marsden, E. P. ‘Section 3: Glove Leathers’, in The Tanning of Clothing and Gloving Leather (ed. P. S. Briggs). TPI, London, 1981.

Pinkham, Nick. W. Pinkham & Son Ltd, The Story of Pinkham Gloves. Nick Pinkham, Dover, 2024.

Redwood, Mike. Gloves and Glovemaking. Shire Publications, Oxford, 2016.

Ruckel, Jay G. Gloversville: A Romantic Step Back into the History of American Glovecraft. LaCrasia Creations, New York, 1985.

Ruskin, John. Works of John Ruskin, Vol. XXIX. E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn (eds). George Allen, London, 1907.

Smith, Willard M. Gloves Past and Present. Sherwood Press, New York, 1917.

Staite, F. A. Glove-making at Home. J. H. Lake and Co., Falmouth, England, 1920 (reprinted 1967).

Trumble, Angus. The Finger: A Handbook. Yale University Press, 2010.

Waggett, Ralph W. A History of the Worshipful Company of Glovers of London (2nd ed). Phillimore, London, 2008.

Wilson, George. The Annals of the Glover Incorporation 1300–1905. R. A. and J. Hay, Perth, 1905.

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