Abstract: Open-palm, fingerless hand protection gloves comprising a dorsal portion, a wrist portion, and at least one finger loop, where the dorsal portion is crisscrossed proximal to the at least one finger loop, are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a dorsal portion of a hand protective glove is not crisscrossed proximal to a finger loop. In some embodiments, a finger loop surrounds multiple fingers. In some embodiments, the hand protection glove may be a sun protection glove where at least the dorsal portion is formed of ultraviolet (UV) protective material.