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Glovemakers by Royal Appointment

Handmade gloves,
since 1946

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Our story

We're proud to be family-owned for three generations. We've been making our gloves in Sussex, England, since Cornelia started in 1946. We put a lot into a pair of our gloves. Not least, 96 inches of stitching, each one executed with care and precision to make a glove fit to stand the test of time. One glovemaker fashions the glove from start to finish and, when it's done, they put their name to it. It's personal.

Autumn & Winter

For the Cold

Pure Silk, Satin & Tulle. Made to Measure.

For the Occasion

The essentials

5 Gloves Every Woman Should Own

Illustrations of women in vintage fashion on a white background

Make it personal

Made yours

Initials, a ring window or a fit made to measure: the details that make a pair theirs alone.

Measuring tape, wooden rolling pin, brown paper roll, and black gloves on a light gray surface.

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Monogramming

Up to 8 characters, embroidered in the atelier

Hand wearing a white glove holding a ring with a diamond on a light gray background

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Ring Window & Mousquetaire

Details only a glovemaker offers

Mousquetaire
Cornelia James, founder and glovemaker by Royal Appointment, with white and navy handmade gloves

Our founder

From refugee to the Queen's glovemaker

Cornelia James arrived in England in 1939 from Vienna. Three generations later the family still makes every glove in Sussex.

Read her story
Two of the Cornelia James team at work in the Sussex office, framed archive glovemaking photographs on the wall

The next chapter

From mother to daughter

Cornelia's daughter, Genevieve, is taking over the business her mother started in 1946. Cornelia James stays in the family, and every pair is still made by hand at our Atelier in Sussex, England.

Meet the makers

From the journal

Guides from the atelier

All guides