Think of a pair of gloves that you own.

Chances are it was made in a faraway place,

and the production process probably included a lot of machinery.

But there was once a time in the early 1900s

when gloves were handmade and made here in the US.

The capital of the glove industry was Gloversville, a city in upstate New York, especially

there glove-making was seen as a craft. Those days for the most part are long gone.

Then in 2001 a man whose entire life evolved around the craft of glove making moved to Gloversville.

My name is Daniel Storto.

I live in Gloversville, New York, and I am a Glovemaker and a historian on the history of the art of glove making.

Daniel is the owner of the glove museum, a recreated 19th century glove making

workshop complete with sizing tools cutting blocks and

irons a place that is part studio and part exhibition space. Not only does Daniel

make gloves using tools from the 1800s but he's also the owner of the world's largest collection of those tools.

He also owns over 10,000 pairs of gloves that span styles and materials from all over the world

dating back almost 500 years. But Daniel's story didn't begin in

Glover'sville. It actually started in Toronto, then moved a few other places

before landing in the city once nicknamed Uncle Sam's Glove Factory.

And once he got there, Daniel realized how important it was to preserve the legacy

of his lifelong passion. My name is Baudelaire and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and

and wondrous places.

Today we go to Gloversville, New York. strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

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