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Like white leather tawing, glovemaking only arrived in Germany with the Huguenot religious refugees. From its beginnings in the year 1686, it soon developed into a well-known export industry in Erlangen's New Town. Until the beginning of the 19th century, Erlangen, Berlin, and Magdeburg were among the leading centres of 'Romanesque glove manufacture' in Germany. Fine Erlangen glacé gloves were sold at the large trade fairs held in Frankfurt and Leipzig, and were traded as far afield as Saxony, Russia, England, Italy, Switzerland, and the Levant.

Like white leather tawing, glovemaking was exempt from the guild system and remained a French monopoly until 1811. It survived the crises of the French Revolutionary Wars beginning in 1792 and the period of French rule (1806–1810), but lost its former importance in the course of the 19th century. Since the end of the 1980s, the glovemaking craft has been practically extinct in Erlangen.