Masonic Gloves

Gloves are an integral part of Masonic decoration in all the Rites, in the same way as the apron, the cord / saltire or the cord. Their use in Lodges is attested to well before the birth of the Grand Lodge of London (1717). Indeed, the earliest surviving description of the ceremony for the reception of a Freemason (which concerns the old English speculative Freemasonry) describes the handing over of gloves to the new Brother. It is found in The Natural History of Staffordshire, published in 1686 by Robert Plot, a naturalist, curator of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and friend of Elias Ashmole. Plot was not a Freemason, so his description is a reliable independent source.

Gloves are white in Symbolic Lodges, sometimes decorated with the Square and Compass or the Acacia Twig. They are also white in most High Degrees, but some High Degrees prescribe the wearing of black, blue, red or yellow gloves.

See our collection of Masonic gloves, with or without the Masonic symbols (Acacia or Square and Compass).

Gloves for High Grades available.

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