Atlantia 12th Night Ceremonial Gloves
The pictures below are the work in progress of the Ceremonial Gloves I made for Atlantia 12th Night competition. Please check back for pictures of finished products and results.
GOLDEN CEREMONIAL GLOVES
Atlantia 12th Night Celebration, 2016
Introduction
“In England, during coronation rituals, the glove is still used as it was in France. Further than that, one glove is blessed by the Archbishop and after being properly presented by the Duke of Norfolk, the King dons it. It is made for the right hand. Into the sovereign’s glove hand the Archbishop of Canterbury then places the scepter as a symbol of royal power.” Page 30, C. Collins Cody, Love of a Glove
“The glove is the symbol for security, honor, and protection.” C. Collins Cody, Love of a
Glove, Page 31.
“Right hand glove would appear to have been usually employed in covenants of all kinds.” S. William Beck, Pg 197, Gloves: Their Annals and Associations
“The Middle Ages knew the glove also as a symbol of the recognition of enfeoffment and vassalage.” A. Latour, Ciba Review #61, October 1947
“In the Rot. Patent. 33 Hen. VIII., the custom of holding lands by the tenure of a glove is alluded to as an ancient practice, and the most remarkable instance is the one mentioned here. The site of the ancient monastery of Workshop was presented by Henry VIII., in the 33rd year of his reign, to the earl of Shrewsbury, to be held in capite, by the service of a tenth part of a knight’s fee, and by the royal service of finding the king a right-hand glove at his coronation, and to support his right arm on that day, so long as he might hold the scepter, paying moreover yearly the sum of £23. 8s. 6d.” William Hull, The History of the Glove Trade, London: G. Eccles, Printer, 101, Fenchurch Street. Prior to 1923
“Every reader of Shakespeare will remember the incident in Henry V, where the King, the night before Agincourt, walking in the lines, takes a glove as a gage from one of his men-at-arms.” B. Eldred Ellis, Gloves and the Glove Trade, Sire Isaac Pitman & Sons, LTD., 1921
The previous passages are from books that speak of the symbolism of gloves and their use in ceremonial processes. I am an avid Glover, and based upon a Royal whim, I decided to make two ceremonial gloves. They are presented here, now, for your pleasure. The theme for 12th Night is based upon the peace summit called “The Field of the Cloth of Gold”, an event between England’s King Henry the VIII and France’s King Francis, therefore, the gloves have been made with all the splendor of the 16th Century and very ‘goldish’ to support this theme. Since in many ceremonial usages, only the right hand glove is used, I made two right hand gloves. They are for two separate ceremonies and decorated accordingly.
The picture in Figure 1 is of a glove in the Victoria and Albert Museum that I captured upon my visit in the year 1991. It inspired the design of both gloves.
Atlantia 12th Night Celebration, 2016
Introduction
“In England, during coronation rituals, the glove is still used as it was in France. Further than that, one glove is blessed by the Archbishop and after being properly presented by the Duke of Norfolk, the King dons it. It is made for the right hand. Into the sovereign’s glove hand the Archbishop of Canterbury then places the scepter as a symbol of royal power.” Page 30, C. Collins Cody, Love of a Glove
“The glove is the symbol for security, honor, and protection.” C. Collins Cody, Love of a
Glove, Page 31.
“Right hand glove would appear to have been usually employed in covenants of all kinds.” S. William Beck, Pg 197, Gloves: Their Annals and Associations
“The Middle Ages knew the glove also as a symbol of the recognition of enfeoffment and vassalage.” A. Latour, Ciba Review #61, October 1947
“In the Rot. Patent. 33 Hen. VIII., the custom of holding lands by the tenure of a glove is alluded to as an ancient practice, and the most remarkable instance is the one mentioned here. The site of the ancient monastery of Workshop was presented by Henry VIII., in the 33rd year of his reign, to the earl of Shrewsbury, to be held in capite, by the service of a tenth part of a knight’s fee, and by the royal service of finding the king a right-hand glove at his coronation, and to support his right arm on that day, so long as he might hold the scepter, paying moreover yearly the sum of £23. 8s. 6d.” William Hull, The History of the Glove Trade, London: G. Eccles, Printer, 101, Fenchurch Street. Prior to 1923
“Every reader of Shakespeare will remember the incident in Henry V, where the King, the night before Agincourt, walking in the lines, takes a glove as a gage from one of his men-at-arms.” B. Eldred Ellis, Gloves and the Glove Trade, Sire Isaac Pitman & Sons, LTD., 1921
The previous passages are from books that speak of the symbolism of gloves and their use in ceremonial processes. I am an avid Glover, and based upon a Royal whim, I decided to make two ceremonial gloves. They are presented here, now, for your pleasure. The theme for 12th Night is based upon the peace summit called “The Field of the Cloth of Gold”, an event between England’s King Henry the VIII and France’s King Francis, therefore, the gloves have been made with all the splendor of the 16th Century and very ‘goldish’ to support this theme. Since in many ceremonial usages, only the right hand glove is used, I made two right hand gloves. They are for two separate ceremonies and decorated accordingly.
The picture in Figure 1 is of a glove in the Victoria and Albert Museum that I captured upon my visit in the year 1991. It inspired the design of both gloves.
...More to come.