Cut-and-sewn gloves can be made using only a cut-resistant material or by using conventional materials with full or palm lining of cut-resistant materials. The materials are cut to shape and sewn into a glove.

When cut and sewn performance gloves hit the market over 20 years ago, the benefits were easy to understand and constant for all end-users. The gloves were durable, form fitting and offered value in terms of longevity over other forms of hand protection. Just like many products, cut and sewn performance gloves have matured – the development and ingenuity in this category continues. In fact, performance gloves have evolved into what we’re aptly calling Cut and Sewn 2.0. While the basic benefits still apply, today’s performance gloves offer benefits and value never thought of in the previous generation.
The result is an increase in demand of specialty niche, or task-specific, gloves that cater to the details of protection each worker may need to perform at his or her best – and safest.

While seamless knits have taken the bulk of the glove market – and why not? They fit great, can offer superior cut protection, dexterity and performance – the need for multi-faceted protection is something only cut and sewn gloves, using advanced, composite materials, can achieve. Key markets that are in need of task specific gloves are oil & gas, construction, electrical and gas utility, and mechanical trades. Each of these markets has specific needs and often there is very little overlap in design or materials. Only the imagination limits how today’s cut and sewn gloves, now task-specific, can be constructed to solve a specific industrial glove demand.