I like Bionic but before brand-name I prefer goatskin. I don't like dyed hide that turns my hands weird colors. I also don't like gauntlets that won't stay up. The biggest problem with gauntlets, IMO, is that they're hot. Granted, it's often in the 70's during our pruning season and we have a lot more sunny days than other climates but our roses have no less thorns.

Womanswork makes a really nice goatskin glove. Scroll down to bottom of page to see it.

Smith and Hawken makes a nice gauntlet glove.

Here is a link that might be useful: Womanswork Gloves

here is my goatskin ones. Love them!

Here is a link that might be useful: gloves

I've got a couple of pairs of the gauntlet bionic gloves. In most cases they are fine, and there is a good amount of dexterity in them so that you can "feel" the rose while stripping leaves. However, the thorns on Mrs. B.R. Cant go right through them. I suspect the thorns on a lot of hybrid teas might do the same thing. Mrs. B.R. Cant is somewhat thorny, but I wouldn't put her in the vicious category.

I am looking for some feedback on different gloves also, as I'm not totally satisfied with the bionics. They also tend to hold a great deal of body heat in so that my hands and forearms get soaking wet with sweat.

Sandy

I've always thought something like the below would be good protection. Check out the leg protectors on the right side of the page!

Here is a link that might be useful: old time rose pruning outfit

Those long goatskin gloves in the link sunnishine posted look like they may be just the ticket for me. I love goatskin, and I would like to add some gauntlets for pruning. Question: how do the sizes run, and how long are the fingers? I have medium sized hands, but freakishly long fingers. The fingers on most women's gloves are nowhere near long enough. I'm hesitant to buy gloves online because they may not fit, so any advice here will be really appreciated.

Connie

BTW, I have learned not to wear dyed deerskin gloves in wet situations. The bizarre yellow they leave on your hands make people think you have a liver problem. :)

I have these gauntlet gloves that I ordered from Little's Good Gloves. I've never had a thorn penetrate them (yet). They are very similar to sunnishines gloves but they have a strap that snugs them around your wrist.

Carol

Here is a link that might be useful: The Gloves!

What ever ones I can find that don't have too many holes in them and are not too dirty, usually never a matched pair. I wear an old long sleeved jacket and let the thorns rip at that. Good thing we don't have a lot of foot traffic in this neighborhood, people might have compassion and drop spare change in my coffee cup--"hey, this homeless person really is working for food!"

lol! love the old time pruning outfit.

My fingers are long too but not freakishly so LOL. I ordered the larges and they are too big but comfortable. The mediums would have fit better but might have made me sweat more.