Abstract: A method of making a garment for bendable hody parts with chain armour selects a chain armour which stretches more in a first, longitudinal direction than in a second, transverse direction 90.degree. thereto, such a four-ring chain armour. The garment is then made with a piece of the chain armour on a bendable body part with skin which stretches when the body part is bent with the longitudinal direction thereof in the direction o the stretching and a piece of the chain armour on a bendable body part with skin which is subjected to compression when the body is bent with the longitudinal direction thereon 90.degree. to the former, the body parts preferably being opposite sides of a joint.

Abstract: A garment in a chain armour structure, where the structure of the garment on that or those parts of the body that are normally subjected to more or less stretching when that part of the body is bent, is orientated 90.degree. in relation to the structure on that or those parts of the body where the skin is subjected to compression when said part of the body is bent. Utilization, e.g. as a glove, where the structure on the palmar side of the glove is orientated 90.degree. in relation to the structure or parts of the structure on the dorsal side of the glove, in order to prevent when the hand is clenched that substantial tightening occurs across the knuckles and finger joints simultaneously with accumulation of the structure on the palmar side of the glove.

Abstract: A protective glove for protecting hands against cuts, burns, and injury to cold, etching, vibrations, friction and shock. The glove has a palmar hand portion and a palmar thumb portion. A dorsal hand rear portion and a dorsal thumb portion are connected to finger stall portions. Palmar and dorsal finger stall sections are in the form of a single integral piece of material in which the two dorsally extending and longitudinal edges are joined together along the mid-part of the dorsal side of the finger so as to avoid obstructing and irritating seams. The shape of the dorsal finger section of each finger stall portion conforms to the curvature of the dorsally joined edges which are extendable to provide sufficient space for the knuckle and finger joints upon a gripping movement of the hand. A protecting piece covers the palmar hand portion and at least the adjacent portions of the palmar side of the finger stalls.