Susan B. Farmer wrote:
OK. thanks to the evil woman who pointed out the MFA in Boston site, I've been drooling there for *far* too long. Count Richelieu's gloves intrigue me. Are there examples of knitted gloves *before* 1600?
There's a pair of red knitted silk and metal thread 15th-century pontifical gloves and one silk and metal knitted 13th-century archbishop's glove in Textile Conservation and Research by Mechtild Flury-Lemberg.
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