Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1891 — A Glove Described. [ARTICLE]

A Glove Described.

People who know about g-.oves use a complicated vocabulary. They call the piece of leather a glove is made out of a trauk. The side pieces to the fingers they call fourchettes, and the little pieces that join the fourchcttes to the gloves they call quirks, or sometimes gussets. The binding Up and down the opening for the buttons and buttonholes is the slit welt, and the top welt is the pisce which is added to the top of the glever" ' When they get to vlove seams they malts a number of nice ? distinctions in stitches. They call it an ini when the edges are turned in and stitched through the inside. They talk about a prick scam when lapped over another. Oftencst of 1m they speak of the overstitch when the edges of the leather are sewn through and round. The welt seam is like the in-seam, except that it has a third piece ■ of leather in the middlo. ■■tWsl