The name of these mittens is referring to the famous Schladming Loden that is produced in Austria’s Tauern and has become a generic name that is used by a multitude of inferior quality skiing mittens. These, on the other hand, are the real thing: they’re made in Schladming from the wool of local mountain sheep on hand-knitting machines and then fulled into water- and snow-repellent loden cloth. At Schladming, they master the challenge to full the loden cloth into variant sizes – no ‘one size fits all’ here! The facing on the palms is vegetable tanned goatskin leather by Austrian specialist Eska.

In 1912, the family business Eska, then still Eska & Dutka, was founded in the Bohemian town of Karlovy Vary. In its fourth generation, they manufacture first-class, sturdy leather products for professional use, as well as fine gloves for everyday use. However, they have no everyday, but first-class quality. In purely manual fine manufacturing, the leather is precisely cut for each of the models and skillfully sewn into a glove with the best fit.