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Hermès announces further expansion plans in France

Published: June 21, 2019

The French luxury fashion label is to expand its glove-making operations in west-central France.

Disruption in the leather industry

Published: May 1, 2019

Was the leather industry disrupted when chrome tanning began to spread in the early twentieth century? Was it disrupted when the footwear, garment and glove business started to grow in Korea and Taiwan in the 1960s, or in China in the 1990s? Was it a disruption when sole leather was replaced by rubber and plastic, or the sneaker moved beyond being a tennis shoe into everyday wear? Or how about when we stopped riding horses and started going in buses and automobiles.

The decline of cut and sew

Published: August 11, 2017

This article was first published in the July-August 2017 edition of ILM print and digital.Tutankhamen had a pair of gloves. In fact, I am sure he had lots of gloves. They were important symbols of power; and he had it all. Most sensible modern countries try and separate the church, the judiciary and the state but in those early days they were combined so that meant lots of gloves for Tutankhamen.

New book on Gloves and Glove-Making

Published: May 20, 2016

ILM columnist and leather industry commentator Mike Redwood has recently written and published a new book titled: “Gloves and Glove-Making” with all Royalties of the book going to the Glovers’ Guild.

Pittards looking at threefold expansion

Published: February 6, 2015

Pittards PLC, the UK based tanner and leather products company investing in Ethiopia, has disclosed that it hopes to increase its production capacity in glove making in Ethiopia by threefold in the coming two years.