Single lady’s glove

Single lady’s glove, 18th  century? E-Minorca. UK-London, Natural History Museum, Department of Zoology, Invertebrates I (Mollusca) (MS Inventory 16)

Detail of ladies glove with open index finger

Text about the gloves made of sea silk in the Natural History Museum London

Single lady’s glove, 18th century? E-Minorca. UK-London, Natural History Museum, Department of Zoology, Invertebrates I (Mollusca) (MS Inventory 16)

Sea silk, plain right knit, 8 stitches/cm, tapering to a point, thumb and index finger open, fingernail covered, at wrist 2 rows left, doffer for thumb with left stitches, length 36 cm, width wrist 7,5 cm

Label: ”British Museum (Natural History), Glove woven from byssus threads of Pinna nobilis, Sir Hans Sloane Collection”

Appleby 1997 writes about it: “The Duke (of Richmond) gave Sloane another byssus glove in the collection, from Minorca (formerly) Port Mahon, captured in 1708 by General James Stanhope); the two previous entries – pearls from the Pinna, and ‚The Byssus from that pinna‘ indicate that all three items originally belonged to Martin Lister.”

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Sources:
MacGregor 1994, Way 1994, McKinley 1998