MATERIALS AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION OF FINE LEATHER GLOVES

Leathers:
Ethiopian hair sheep

South-American Peccary – wild pig

Finnish reindeer, deer and elk

Linings:
100% silk: the material weighs 105/m2, which is nearly three times heavier as used by our competitors. Therefore Sauso gloves with real silk are warm and luxurious.

Artificial silk: (polyamide)-linings used in only two of our basic models

100% wool: a very comfortable, luxurious and warm lining

100% cashmere

70% cashmere / 15% silk / 15% wool: luxurious and warm, yet a strong lining rabbit

slink lambskin / curly

Threads: The threads are very strong polyester with three fibres filaments, which makes them flexible.

Selection of Leather: Fine leather gloves can only be made from leathers, which have the following qualities:
They have to be very strong but thin, elastic, soft and they have to have a beautiful shine.
Hair sheep has always been one of the best materials for fine leather gloves.

This material can be found only near the Equator. That means that the majority of the sheep in the world are wool sheep, which are too loose and weak for gloves but are cheaper and easier to dye. Therefore, we advise you to make sure when buying fine leather gloves, the material is really hair sheep.

Ethopian Hair Sheep: The basic leather used by Sauso for decades is the ETHIOPIAN HAIR SHEEP which is the best available origin of hair sheep; it's also the most difficult to dye and work with.

We purchase the hair sheep from tanneries which are specialized in this kind of leather and combine the strengths of each tannery, e.g. certain colours, finishing techniques etc.

Peccary Wild Pig: PECCARY is a wild pig from South-America and it's the most luxurious and famous material for gloves. There are not many companies in the world that can work with this material. Peccary skins are very expensive and only a rather small part of the skins are useable for gloves where as major parts are full of defects. This requires great skills of the cutters and only the nicely cutted parts can be used for gloves. Native Americans hunt wild pigs because for meat consumption. Therefore, the leather is only a secondary by-product.

In order to protect the species from poaching CITES (Geneva) controls the trade of Peccary-Pigs. You can get a CITES-permit to export peccary only from Peru; the other countries around Amazon have lost their trade permits because of poaching.

The Lappish Reindeer: THE LAPPISH REINDEER (Finland) is something special. It's thin but very durable and produces the most beautiful suede (available in many colours). It's available also as nappa. REINDEER SUEDE is remarkably strong and has fabulous shades of colour.
Especially in unlined gloves reindeer suede feels very comfortable. It is a shame that the glove industry does not realize the potential of this high quality material, which we consider to be as good as peccary, even though these two materials are very unlike each other.

Finnish Deer and Elk: A very interesting new material is FINNISH DEER skin which is very comfortable, soft and durable at the same time. Like peccary it's the best for unlined gloves.
A similar material is FINNISH ELK which is similar as deer but more exotic.

Important! Fine glove leather cannot be retreated like bag-, garment- or footwear leathers. Therefore there can be differences of shades even in the same colour. In leather there can always be found some natural flaws, so it is acceptable to have some of these distinguishing marks of leather in our products.

We like to emphasize that all the leathers we use, are DRUMDYED. This means that the leathers are very COLORFAST (unlike many of the leathers from cheaper gloves).

Furthermore all the leathers we use are manufactured with CHEMICALS which fully comply with European directives, where the laws on consumer and environment protection are very strict. Whereas in the other part of the world these forbidden toxic chemicals are freely used every day. This all means MORE SAFETY to our CUSTOMERS; a point which is very important to us.