Book details: • 198 pages, Paperback • 22cm x 18cm • 196 colour images • Published in 2015 • Language: Dutch The full original title of this book is "Honderden Van hand tot hand: Handschoenen en wanten in de Nederlanden voor 1700." Annemarieke Willemson is curator of Middle Ages at the Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. She has produced this fascinating overview of hundreds of archaeological and extant gloves and mittens from the Netherlands. These are further illustrated by an impressive selection of depictions of gloves and mittens in visual sources such as paintings and sculpture. Though the text is in Dutch the book is visually rich and contains many previously unpublished images and sheds light on a topic about which little has been written. "Annemarieke Willemsen researched mittens and gloves that came to light during excavations: unsightly pieces of leather and textile, but very instructive if you want to know how these things were (and are) put together... The book contains a surprising amount of information on a piece of clothing history just as small as it is underexposed... The relationship is interesting between gloves and honour or etiquette: sometimes it is a sign of respect to wear them, sometimes not to wear them." (Excerpts translated from the 13 May, 2016 issue of Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad story "An Underexposed, Erotically Charged Piece of Clothing".)