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Show Gloves' Early Hiatory The monks under Charlemagne (742-814) (742-814) were granted the unrestricted right to hunt in return for making gloves, girdles and book covers from the skins of the deer they killed.-The wearing of gloves was almost universal uni-versal among the Germans and Scandinavians Scandi-navians In the Eighth and Ninth centuries. cen-turies. Pontifical gloves made their first appearance In France and reached Rome toward the end of the Tenth century, about which time silk gloves became the vogue among kings, nobles and church dignitaries. These gloves often were elaborately embroidered and Jeweled. |