In the Erzgebirge not only mining, bouncing arches and smoking men have a long tradition, but also glove manufactories. But this craft is used less and less, because many customers don't care much about the origin of their gloves. They don't know that today most leather goods in the trade come from Pakistan or other countries with precarious working conditions and environmental pollution.
We want to preserve this old craft in the Erzgebirge and the jobs in the region. The glove leather comes from sustainable tanneries and is processed by skilled workers. We manufacture custom-made gloves
- for people who attach special importance to quality (can be ordered via our shop lederhandschuhmacher.com)
- and for people who have special requirements for gloves due to an accident, illness or congenital malformation. Because for them there are no standard gloves that fit.
For some years now we have specialised in orthopaedic made-to-measure gloves. This is a wonderful task for us because we can help people with special hands directly and our technical skills are really needed. Our custom-made orthopaedic gloves are called HANDSCHING - this is the Erzgebirge dialect and simply means: gloves.
