Imagine depictions of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table draped in chain mail garments and gloves. It was then that the concept of metal mesh gloves was born — in the Middle Ages when European knights wore gloves made of chain mail to protect them from puncture of the swords and lances used in jousts and battles.
Leap forward 1,500 years. Metal mesh gloves have been modernized, but at their root are still woven together with thousands of individually formed metal rings. In the 1980s almost all manufacturers of mesh gloves switched to stainless steel.