Glove maker
Also called glove manufacturer, glove manufacturers, sports glove manufacturer
Glove makers design and manufacture technical, sport or fashion gloves.
What you'd do
Sewing, embroidery and related workers · ILO- Repairing defective or damaged portion of cloth or garment by hand, using matching thread and needle
- Removing stitches from garments to be altered, using rippers or razor blades
- Selecting thread according to specifications or colour of parts or dyeing thread to match colour and shade of cloth to be darned
- Patching holes, sewing tears and ripped seams, or darning defects in items, using needles and thread
- Pulling knots to the wrong sides of garments, using hooks
- Trimming ends with scissors to make mended portion look uniform with pattern of cloth
- Sewing ornamental designs by hand over stamped, printed or stencilled patterns on fabric using needle and coloured thread
- Embroidering ornamental designs on cloth by hand or machine using needle and coloured threads
- Softening leather or shoe material with water to prepare it for sewing
- Sewing or gluing decorative trimmings to articles, such as hats, caps or millinery
- Hand-sewing umbrella covers to frames, tacking cover to ribs along seams, sewing corners to tip of rib and sewing ties to outside of cover to hold umbrella when folded
- Fabricating and assembling thick cloth, canvas and similar materials into sails, awning, tarpaulins and tents
Sew pieces of fabricManufacture wearing apparel productsDistinguish accessoriesDistinguish fabricsManufacture personal protective equipment made of textile+ 1 more essential skills
What the work is like
- A mix of sitting and standing
- Some contact with people
- Little freedom to decide
- Usually 40 hours a week
- Deadlines now and then
- Some repetitive tasks
US data: based on the O*NET profile of the related, broader US job "Sewers, Hand"
Will there be jobs?
Limited prospectsFewer jobs than in most work will need filling by 2035.
Solid: measured. Dashed: forecast.
910,000 replacing leavers
332,000 jobs disappear
Jobs to fill per 100 people working now
Right now
8 of 27 countries report a shortage of sewing, embroidery and related workers, 6 a surplus.
Sewing, embroidery and related workers · EURESWhat does it pay?
Below averagePay depends a lot on the country: from about €1,000 a month (Bulgaria) to €4,800 (Denmark), before tax.
Pick a country at the top of the page to see typical pay there, for people under 30, and compared with all jobs.
Among craft and related trades workers in the EU, women earn 26% less per hour than men. Craft and related trades workers · Eurostat
What do I need to study?
Upper secondary or vocationalUpper secondary or vocational training in textiles (clothes, footwear and leather) is the usual route.
Highest qualification of food processing, woodworking, garment and other craft and related trades workers (EU, 2025)
Degree 11%Vocational 53%General secondary 10%Basic schooling 26%
Field that teaches it
Textiles (clothes, footwear and leather)
Vocational route, EU
7 in 10 trainees in this field
Pick a country at the top of the page to see where to study and the official course finders.
Will AI change it?
Very littleAI could help with only small parts of the tasks.
How exposed is this job? ILO scale
Very low
Low
Some tasks
Moderate
Significant
High
Average task score 0.12 on a scale from 0 (AI can't do it) to 1 (AI could do it fully).
See the score for each of the 12 tasks
Embroidering ornamental designs on cloth by hand or machine using needle and coloured threads0.14
Selecting thread according to specifications or colour of parts or dyeing thread to match colour and shade of cloth to be darned0.14
Trimming ends with scissors to make mended portion look uniform with pattern of cloth0.14
Sewing ornamental designs by hand over stamped, printed or stencilled patterns on fabric using needle and coloured thread0.14
Hand-sewing umbrella covers to frames, tacking cover to ribs along seams, sewing corners to tip of rib and sewing ties to outside of cover to hold umbrella when folded0.14
Sewing or gluing decorative trimmings to articles, such as hats, caps or millinery0.14
Pulling knots to the wrong sides of garments, using hooks0.13
Fabricating and assembling thick cloth, canvas and similar materials into sails, awning, tarpaulins and tents0.12
Softening leather or shoe material with water to prepare it for sewing0.12
Removing stitches from garments to be altered, using rippers or razor blades0.10
Repairing defective or damaged portion of cloth or garment by hand, using matching thread and needle0.10
Patching holes, sewing tears and ripped seams, or darning defects in items, using needles and thread0.09
Based on what AI could technically do when assessed in 2025. It is not a forecast for a future year, and not a forecast of job losses. Scores for sewing, embroidery and related workers. Source: ILO (2025), adapted (credits).