What is the best material for horse riding gloves?

The best riding gloves is not only a plus to your riding outfit and your equestrian gear, but also serve as an added layer to protect hands from holding on to the reins and also from reverse weather. If you’re shopping around for a new pair of riding gloves, you should get start with the choice of materials.

In the past riding gloves were mainly made from high-quality leather, but there are some different choices of materials available today. All of them with their own benefits and of course drawbacks.

#1 Materials

Leather: Leather is the most popular material, a quality leather glove will not only be warm, but it will also be extremely durable provided you take good care of it. Leather durable and adapts to the shape of your hands, so it makes sense to get a leather glove if you are just starting out.

However, the only drawback of leather is that it can be very costly.

#2 Synthetic leather

Synthetics are durable, quick drying and easy to launder. Some of synthetics gloves  even are just a good as leather these days. If you don’t want leather, you can find good gloves made from synthetic. These gloves have all of the benefits of leather with the good price tag.

#3 Spandex or Lycra

The biggest advantage of spandex or lycra gloves is that they are close fit to your hands, this make sense like you are not wearing any gloves at all. The down point with these gloves though is that they are not really good at breathable which makes them not the idea gloves to use in the summer.

#4 Polyester mesh

If breathable is the most important factor you are looking for in the riding gloves, then polyester mesh is what you should get. Like spandex or lycra gloves these are very thin and comfortable to wear, but they are not unbreathable as spandex or lycra gloves. So you can wear Polyester mesh in the summer without worry that your hands are become slippery with sweat.

#5 Cotton

Cotton is the thin and comfortable material. Cotton gloves are soft, durable, easy to launder and maintain. The thinness of the material means they will wear quite quickly.

#6 Wool

If you want a riding gloves for children, you can choose wool. But the drawback to wool gloves is that they are not water proof. That means if they get wet your hands will get extremely cold very quickly. wool gloves will have rubber or silicone grip dots on the palm is better to go with.

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