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By some miracle, I had an intact buckle and strap from my box of parts that matched the old sewing pattern. I also had an old pair of old white leather garden gloves from a flea market that matched the patina of the white leather wrist protector.
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I backed the wrist protector with a glued on piece of vintage canvas that I left long on the right end so I could extend the length of the wrist protector with a piece from the old garden glove. The color and texture match was good. This was actually the hardest part to finish because it was fairly detailed. I resewed along the perimeter edge to match the way it originally looked. The resewing of the buckle and strap was straightforward since I had the old sewing pattern to go by.
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I glued a piece of canvas backing inside the hole in the palm of the mitt. I cut out a paper pattern of the hole shape and transferred the pattern to a vintage piece of leather that matched the surrounding color and texture of the palm. I glued the leather piece in with contact cement. The light brown of the palm is a suede like material and the mitt is very soft on the hand. the mitt has those nice vintage reinforcing rivets at each side of the wrist opening that were still intact.
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The front of the mitt was pristine and had that nice reinforcing tongue of leather between the thumb and body. I liked working on this mitt since it had a lot of potential to be turned into a nice display piece.
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