Excerpt from the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, published February 16, 2018

For the team at Sunderland Leather, the start of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, was special. The company had a hand in making the fringed gloves worn by the American athletes, which were designed and manufactured by American companies.

The gloves, which featured a beaded American flag and Olympic rings, were made with leather that was tanned, sorted, selected and colored right on Kingsboro Avenue.

Smrtic was out of state for a leather show when news of the gloves broke and said it has been a whirlwind since he returned to Gloversville.

The team at Sunderland Leather sampled the leather for the Ralph Lauren company and Olympia Gloves of Elmsford, Westchester County, around a year ago. During the process there were a number of prototypes and samples made of the leather used in the Western theme design.

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