This early nineteenth-century pair of gloves is made of a silk machine-made net, with dot and “X”-shaped motifs embroidered in cotton. The embroidery was likely done by a member of the Custis or Law family, possibly Eliza Custis Law. American women frequently decorated machine-made netting, which they purchased to use as applique and to make into a variety of accessories. In the early nineteenth century, long gloves were typically paired with short-sleeved neoclassical dresses.