Peccary Driving Gloves

The finest driving glove we make, and the one that needs no breaking in.

Peccary is the rarest leather used in fine glove-making. Ours comes from Peru, from a wild animal of the family Tayassuidae — not a pig or a boar, however often it is described that way. The hides are small and the supply does not scale, which is why a peccary glove costs what it does.

At the wheel, peccary does something no other leather manages. It is soft from the first wear, so there is no stiff fortnight before the glove stops fighting you. It stays supple in the cold, when deerskin and lambskin firm up. And it breathes, which matters more on a long drive than most people expect.

How to recognise it: hair follicles grow in groups of three, leaving a pitted grain no other leather has and no embossing convincingly imitates. On a real hide the pattern is irregular — spacing and depth vary, and it follows the contours of the animal. If it looks too even, it is printed.

Our finest models are hand-sewn throughout, up to eight hours for a single pair. Every glove here is cut and finished by hand in our workshop in Târgu Mureș, Transylvania, where our family has made gloves since 1925.

Which pair? Unlined for the most feel and for spring through autumn. Hand-sewn with contrast stitching if you want the craft to show. Padded palm and fingerless for summer driving and for cycling. If you want peccary for warmth rather than feel, look at our peccary winter gloves instead.

Sizes run 7.5 to 10 for men and 6.5 to 8.5 for women — measure around your knuckles, excluding the thumb, and check the sizing chart. If your size or colour is not listed, we make to measure with no fixed limits on size, colour, lining or stitching. A bespoke pair takes up to five days to make, so 8–12 days in total within the EU.

New to this leather? Read what peccary leather actually is.