What is the difference between Calf and Sheep leather Wicket Keeping gloves?

Answer 1

The leathers are very different. Calf, young cow, is a thick leather with an even pattern of hair holes within it. Sheep hide is a much thinner leather, and has a high fat content.

Cow will protect your fingers better, but over time, will be less able to keep the leather soft and supple, after consecutive games, by resisting the breakdown of oils and fats in the leather structure, which are the usual cause of gloves becoming hard and unwearable.

So the sheeps skin will last a little longer as a usable glove, but will wear out faster than the Cows leather, but that will go harder eventually.

Pittards make the puma gloves and there is a link below.

motorcycle gloves are made from soft 1.0mm goat and calfskin leather, with reinforced layers. for sport, the strenght required, means that they use a Full grain skin.

Full grain is produced from the top side of the leather - that is the outside of the skin, the surface will be smooth and polishable. Oils and waxes are coated onto the surface of the leather to produce a tacky finish that gives improved grip.

The acknowledged superior material for gloving and soft shoe leather comes from the "CABRETTA" (Hairsheep), from Ethiopia and other sub tropical regions.

Wicket Keeping Gloves, the best ones are made from the highest quality leather. sheeps skin on the glove, - Extra padding protection in calf on palm and finger tips. - they have an Expanded web for safe catching. - and some even have Durable neoprene rubber facing.

Answer 2

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What is the difference between Calf and Sheep leather Wicket Keeping gloves?

Answer 3

Sheep Leather

Answer 4

Ive never heard of sheep leather wicket keeping gloves. But if you want to buy some gloves try

Answer 5

If leather is a by-product of the meat industry, then rabbit fur coats (a by product of the food industry) and moleskin fur coat (animals which are killed as pests) should be OK, too? What about wild ermine which have devastated the water fowl around the countryside - you can now travel for miles on the upper Trent and Mersey and not see a single mallard where 30 years ago the water would be alive with broods of little ducklings with their Mums. So should the fur from these "pests" also be OK? Where do we draw the lines?

Answer 6

A big difference to the calf or sheep.

Answer 7

Sheep leather every time, much more flexible and better for handling the ball

Answer 8

no idea bill

Answer 9

there probably is