Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1877 — Kid Gloves. [ARTICLE]

Kid Gloves.

Kid gloves are rarely made of kid, as their name implies, the demand and supply being far greater than the number of kids annually killed. Rats and lambs furnish a large proportion of the material used for ladies’ kid gloves. France has always taken the lead in glove manufacture, but some firms of England are fast growing into popularity and favor. Glove manufacture in the United States is confined principally to buckskin, and driving and gauntlet gloves, which closely resemble kid, but axe much heavier.