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and Nantwich a trade still lingers for tanned gloves, known by these ' 

 names, and in Leicester and Nottingham for cotton and cashmere gloves. 

 In the old gloving towns of Ludlow, Leominster, and Derby, the trade 

 is quite extinct. 



The introduction of foreign kid gloves many years ago stimulated to 

 improvement the principal manufacturers, who, by studying the proper 

 fit and good wearing qualities of their gloves, have maintained their 

 position in the face of competition ; but now that all gloves are admitted 

 entirely free, many small makers have given up. 



The number of hands employed is very considerable, particularly of 

 women in rural districts, occupied in the sewing, who have the great 

 advantage of working at home ; and in the intervals of domestic duties 

 are enabled to earn four or five shillings per week, as an addition to the 

 family income. 



In recent years a large and increasing trade has arisen in gloves cut 

 from cloth of woollen thread or silk, made specially elastic for this pur- 

 pose in the towns of Nottingham, Trowbridge, and Norwich. The 

 manufacture of gloves not having extended to our Colonies, this article 

 forms an item in our list of exports both to the Colonies and America. 



The export to France under the recent treaty has not had time for 

 development, and is affected by the large quantities of kid gloves made 

 there by many makers of excellence -who compete very closely together. 



A demand is springing up for what are called " dogskin gloves," an 

 English speciality. 



Cotton-gloves, made in Saxony, being produced at very low prices, 

 owing to the cheap supply of labour, are becoming a considerable item 

 of import, affecting the trade in Leicester and Nottingham. 



Belgium has only been a producer of gloves within about twenty 

 years, and was previously dependent on France for them. The manu- 

 facture has been largely developed at Brussels, which ranks high for ex- 

 portation. As the glovers also dress their leather, they are enabled to 

 produce them cheaper in consequence. — Report of Jurors. 



STAINED GLASS AND GLASS USED FOR DECORATION. 



BY APSLEY PELLATT. 



The adoption of painted windows* was concurrent with the improve- 



* "The terms ' Painted Glass/ and ' Stained Glass,' are commonly used as 

 if they were synonymous. I have, however, adopted the former, from a belief, 

 that although not strictly correct, it is, on the whole, a more correct expression 

 than the latter. For a glass painting may be entirely formed of painted glass, 

 that is, painted with an enamel colour, but it would be impossible to execute a 

 glass painting merely by staining the glass. Most glass paintings are formed by 

 combining the two processes of enamelling and staining, &c." — 'An Inquiry into 

 the Ancient Glass Painting,' &c, by Charles Winston, Esq. J. H. Parker, Oxford. 



