Excerpt from the Times Union, published February 16, 2018
One of the last remaining leather companies in Gloversville helped make the eye-catching gloves worn by American athletes at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.
The fringed gloves, beaded with an American flag and the five Olympic rings, were made with leather tanned and colored at Sunderland Leather Co., a family-owned leather business with facilities in the foothills of the Adirondacks. It’s the second time the company’s leather has been featured at the Olympics: in 2002, Sunderland’s leather was used in deerskin jackets worn by Team U.S.A. at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
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