Building a Medieval Gauntlet

Step 4 Moving/Removing the insulation

This stage will be different depending on your gloves.

My gloves were fireplace gloves, and thusly had a layer of insulation inside, some garden gloves have insulation, some don't.

You'll need to get the insulation out of the way for the next step for 2 reasons.

1. The insulation provides an extra layer of stuff you have to poke your rivet through, without actually making a better rivet connection

2. The insulation will act as padding between your fingers and the rivets when you're wearing the gloves.

I was able to pull the insulation out of my glove fairly easily. There were a couple of strings holding the fingers in place but I just yanked the insulation and they broke. Standard garden gloves usually have the insulation attached up the side of the glove, where the slit is, making it much harder to remove the insulation intact. On my practice gloves, I just cut the insulation out, and kept it aside.

Once I flipped the insulation out, cut a slit in the insulation so you can reach into the fingers of the gloves and access the leather shell without the insulation in the way. If you preserve your insulation well enough, when the glove is all done, you'll be able re-sew the slit and stuff the insulation back in, and it will be as comfortable as new. It'll also provide padding against the rivets poking through the glove.