Ruoto X Sauso Metso Wool

Ruoto X Sauso Metso is a 100% wool-lined hunting glove. The design of the glove takes into account the needs of both rifle and shotgun shooting, meaning good fit, grip, and above all, trigger feel. The glove has a slit on the index finger, allowing you to take your trigger finger out of the glove for shooting. The same slit is on the gloves of both hands, so they serve both right- and left-handed shooters.

Ruoto X Sauso -gloves are responsible collaboration products of two 100% domestic operators. These hunting gloves are designed according to Ruoto's wishes and manufactured through Sauso's long experience and expertise. A stylish, comfortable, and above all, durable option for hunting and outdoor activities!

Ruoto X Sauso gloves are made from Finnish white-tailed deer. Our common idea has been to produce a durable glove using the hides of deer hunted by Finnish hunters. Many Finnish hunting clubs hunt hundreds of white-tailed deer annually, whose meat is eaten, but the hides are often underutilized.

Deerskin resembles moose leather in its properties. However, deerskin is thinner and denser in structure, making it possible to produce more elegant gloves while maintaining good trigger feel. The density of the leather makes it velvety soft, yet highly abrasion-resistant, making it an excellent material for outdoor gloves. Since the white-tailed deer lives in Europe only in Finland as an introduced species, this luxury leather is available in limited quantities on a larger scale.

The history of Sauso

The history of Sauso glove manufacturing is closely linked to the history of the Sauso family. Svante Sauso learned the craft of glove-making from German masters and founded a factory producing quality gloves in 1929 in Järvenpää. After Svante, his son Arno took over the company, and from his hands, the company was passed on to the next, third Sauso generation.

In Finland, production continued until 1989, when the skilled glove makers began to retire. Since there is no training for the field in Finland, finding skilled cutters and seamstresses for factory production became very difficult. At that time, Sakari Sauso decided to move the factory and production to the city of Pécs in Hungary, where gloves have been manufactured since the mid-1800s and which remains a center of quality glove manufacturing to this day.

The company's roots are still strongly in Finland, as the design, product development, sales, and marketing of the gloves are still handled here. Only the highest quality materials are used in production, sourced from the best, most reliable suppliers.

All stages of the production of our handmade gloves are monitored from cutting to finishing. To ensure a well-fitting and durable glove, it goes through over 100 handcrafted stages. It is precisely for quality, fit, and durability that Sauso has been known for almost a century. 

Sauso leather gloves are always handmade

High-quality leather gloves are always made from start to finish by hand, with machines playing only an auxiliary role.

The cutter is responsible for ensuring that the gloves fit well. He works the leather using a centuries-old table cutting method, using similar tools that were available at the Sauso factory at its founding in 1929. The cutter's goal is to utilize the leather as precisely as possible so that expensive material is not wasted, while also considering the natural stretch of each individual hide to ensure the gloves fit as well as possible.

In table cutting, excess slack is stretched out of the hides before the gloves are cut, but an allowance for fit is left to ensure that the gloves do not stretch out over long use but retain their excellent fit.

Another particularly critical point in glove manufacturing is their assembly. Even a small deviation in the stitching affects the size and fit of the glove, so the work of the seamstresses is truly millimeter-precise. The most commonly used seam type in Sauso gloves, the step seam, is particularly challenging because the lower leather runs completely hidden during sewing?the seamstress must have eyes in her fingertips.

Leather gloves are often finished with a lining, which is essentially a glove within a glove. Linings made from genuine natural materials are sewn into the leather gloves at the fingertips and wrist. This allows the linings to be completely replaced if they break, significantly extending the lifespan of the gloves.

Depending on the glove model and materials used, the wrist binding is done either by hand or machine sewing. During the binding, material and care instructions, as well as size labels, are also attached to the gloves. Finally, the gloves are lightly ironed.