Looking for three fingered glove pattern.

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Looking for three fingered glove pattern.

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As this weekend looks to be really cold, I'm in search for a pattern for a pair of three fingered gloves, to make real quick. Can anyone help?
Thanks for your time!
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[img]http://home.armourarchive.org/members/flonzy/images/glove.jpg[/img]

Ok so for each glove you need 2 of the main piece and one thumb. On the main piece the thumb goes on you make a cut like I have marked, that flap stays on and is the inside of the thumb that you attach the separate thumb piece too (hard to explain)

Hope this helps, not to scale it is just a mock up of how I do mine.
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GREAT! Thanks and I understand what to do with the thumb!
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Googled this: http://www.glove.org/
Don't know if it has three fingered ones, but it should be easy to modify the 5-fingered variation. Make sure you make them wide enough and get the thumb placement right.

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BTW my thumb is based off several extent leather mittens. I have a picture of one here:

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/f ... dieval.htm
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Re: Looking for three fingered glove pattern.

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More examples of mittens and three-fingered gloves at http://www.larsdatter.com/gloves.htm
(The three-fingered gloves I'd made used a different pattern than James B.'s -- the thumb was well-fitted, but there was a gusset from the top of one pair of fingers to the top of the other -- from the pattern in The Medieval Tailor's Assistant.)
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Post by earnest carruthers »

As long as you get the thumb gusset in the right place for your hand the pattern is easy, as james says.

We have a few variants on a theme and the only problem was when the gusset was wrongly placed (cut).

You can omit the split between the two main fingers and have a pair of mittens, one was found on the Thames foreshore circa 1400 - 1500 some years back and Dave Key did a pattern on it for Company of St George.

Also you can make them out of a variety of leathers, eg thick leather for working or fighting in, sheepskin (fur inside) to keep warm, etc etc.

Let us see a picture of the finished piece too.
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HRM Tristian of Calontir has some reeeeeallllly nice ones like that.
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