Excerpt from ABC News 10, published February 9, 2018
The 2018 winter games kick off tonight in South Korea and the U.S. Team will be taking a little of the Capital Region with them.
If you’re watching the Opening Ceremony this leather may start to look a little bit more familiar to you and it was all made right here in the Capital Region.
The U.S. Athletes will be donning red, white, and blue for the winter games but they’ll also be wearing something else – bison leather gloves created by Peter Kiernan in Gloversville.
“Almost one year ago today they approached us with this project and they weren’t really that specific about what it was.”
Kiernan has been making gloves for Ralph Lauren for about a decade but says this assignment was special.
“It’s a few gloves in the period of a year that I’m especially proud of. But this was probably one of them.”
Ralph Lauren designed the gloves but Kiernan was responsible for making them and immediately thought of Sunderland Leather.
“This is it. Just picture the gloves with this leather.”
