The creation of the glove
Most gloves available on the market for this costume are cheap gloves of low quality, so I decided to make the glove myself instead of buying one. Also there are a few places to acquire screen accurate metal buckles and rubber strips that will make any custom sewn glove look better, and fortunately I was able to buy these parts for my own glove to make it as screen accurate as possible.
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The type of pleather that I bought for the glove had the perfect color but was molded onto the back of a fuzzy fabric that would have to be removed at the finger sections, but still the fabric would work great for making the ridges of the glove.
After finding various glove patterns online, I altered and combined pieces from each pattern to make a new pattern that would fit perfectly for my own hand.
After cutting out the thumb and finger parts from the pleather, a razor shaver and a shaving machine were used to remove the fuzz from the fabric.
After a while, a ball of fuzz had also been removed from the finger parts.
The parts for in between the fingers were sewn onto the sides of the fingers with a sewing machine.
The tops of the fingers were sewn together by hand to make sure they would get sewn right.
After cutting out the thumb hole and turning the glove inside in, it fit around my hand perfectly.
The thumb part was turned inside out to be sewn together.
The glove was turned inside out again to sew on the thumb.
The forearm section of the glove was made to fit my measurements and was traced onto the rest of the pleather.
Keeping the fuzzy side of the fabric on this section allowed me to use it as a padding for all the ridges along the glove.
By sewing the ridge lines into nothing but a thin lining fabric, the fuzzy fabric acted as a padding just as I had planned.
Because the three sections along the glove are more raised than the rest, they were further padded with black fleece fabric.
After starting sewing in the first ridge lines after the padded section, the section looked just right.
After sewing in the rest of the ridge lines, only one of the two lines at the end was made since the end would later be hemmed at this location, having the one line to show where to hem it.
The forearm section was turned inside out to sew the sides together.
The end of the glove could now be hemmed with two ridge lines.
To attach the glove section to the forearm section, the glove was turned inside out and was sewn to the outer palm piece, then the forearm section was turned inside out to be sewn to the wrist section of the glove.
After turning the sections inside in again, they looked very good together as one piece.
Fortunately since the movie featuring this glove was not that old at the time I was making this glove, the exact same metal buckles could be bought for my own glove to make it screen accurate.
Three pieces of pleather were cut out to be turned into the straps for the metal buckles.
A piece of flexible thick vinyl was placed in the middle of the straps, then the metal buckles were attached to the straps by sewing the pleather running through them onto the nylon.
Contact adhesive was used to glue the straps shut.
The vinyl inside the straps were cut narrower than the straps to give them the right shape.
A roller was used to compress the glued areas further.
A roller was used to compress the glued areas further.
Lastly the edges of the straps were trimmed and glued down to be hidden.
The three straps were now complete and looked very good.
A piece of masking tape was applied temporarily to the very center along the glove to align the metal buckles properly.
The straps were sewn to the glove where the stitching would not be seen later on with the rubber strips in place.
Fortunately a set of screen accurate rubber strips could be bought for my glove also.
Strangely enough the experts claim Anakin Skywalker doesn't wear anything black when...
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Strangely enough the experts claim Anakin Skywalker doesn't wear anything black when...
Oh look, these are black...
After cutting the rubber strips to the right lengths, they were glued onto the glove straps with contact adhesive.
Rubber bands were used to securely hold the rubber strips in place while the glue cured.
With the rubber strips in place and everything else done, the glove is now ready to cover up a robotic arm to save money on less computer imaging.
Having made only a few simple gloves before, I am pleased with how good this glove turned out and how screen accurate it looks with the metal buckles and rubber strips. It fits very comfortably on my arm and is one of the coolest gloves I have. Feel free to use any ideas from this tutorial, and good luck sewing your own Anakin Skywalker glove.
Project details
Glove version - Star Wars Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith.
Project duration - 1 week.
Costs spent - $109 USD.
Accidents - None at all.
Thanks to
Lillestrøm Sysenter for having sold the pleather.
The Rebel Agent for having sold the metal buckles.
Anthony Skywalker for having sold the rubber strips.
Project details
Glove version - Star Wars Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith.
Project duration - 1 week.
Costs spent - $109 USD.
Accidents - None at all.
Thanks to
Lillestrøm Sysenter for having sold the pleather.
The Rebel Agent for having sold the metal buckles.
Anthony Skywalker for having sold the rubber strips.
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