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METHODS
This is the most important stage! There would
be no sense in buying the highest quality of materials and
waste them because of poor or average workmanship. The production
of fine leather gloves is purely handwork; the use machines
can only be an aid. We have gloves which are purely hand made..
Let's look at the cutting
of gloves, which is a very slow process:
The cutters generally manage only around 30-35 pairs per day
because of the difficulties involved, individual materials
which have natural flaws and must be treated individually
during the process. One has to stretch the leather in a very
special way, measure to a certain size inside the glove (the
size in inches + one inch for tailoring) to make the fitting
perfect. This special knowledge is the reason why it takes
3-4 years to learn this profession in a proper way.
Nowadays skilful cutters
are very rare. They can be found mainly in Europe and specially
in Hungary (where our factory is), where the skills and methods
of the old glove masters are still intact. Most
manufacturers use machine cutting techniques mainly for cost
reasons (depending on the material and quality claims, it
can produce 60 to 500 pairs per day per each cutter).
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