A Knitter’s Guide to Gloves introduces several construction techniques, alongside the possible materials and tools that are suitable for knitting the gloves you want. A chapter on design guides you through adapting and customising your glove knitting. The book also traces the history of knitted gloves and is lavishly illustrated with examples from museum collections. With patterned gloves from Yorkshire and Scotland, alongside the stories of examples that have survived into the twenty-first century. Includes a step-by-step photo guide for those new to knitting gloves through the key points of glove construction and making your first pair. Five glove patterns are included which gives a choice of styles to knit, from a plain pair through to colour worked gloves of varied complexity.