Hestra Snowboarding Shop
Welcome to our Hestra Gear Shop where you can find all Hestra products that we have in our database.
We have a total of 15 Hestra Products in the following categories:
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Our Shop Admnistrators hand pick products and these are our Hestra Hot Picks:
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Heli - Mens
The Hestra Army Leather Heli Ski glove is a full-featured gauntlet glove for those who appreciate de ...
$59.97
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Ski Cross
Rally down the mountain with the Hestra Leather Ski Cross Glove, and try to stay ahead of the pack. ...
$69.97
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Vertical Cut Freeride
The Hestra Vertical Cut Freeride glove is a stealth black leather warrior. Its short cut fits neatly ...
$115.96
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Guide Leather - Mens
If you spend your work days on your skis or ski like it's your job, you can't do without the Hestra ...
$103.96
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My First Hestra - Kids
The Hestra Kid's My First Hestra Mitten will set your kids' standards high from the get go. These mi ...
$30.56
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Heli 3 Finger
The Army Leather 3-Finger glove gives you the warmth of mittens combined with the dexterity of glove ...
$99.95
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XCR Short
You don't have to enlist to get the Hestra Army Leather Gore-Tex XCR Short Glove; you just have to b ...
$101.96
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Heli - Kids
Hestra gave their Kid's Heli Jr Gloves the same attention to quality, durability, and fit that the a ...
$79.95
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In 1936, our grandfather Martin Magnusson founded Hestra Handsken in Småland, Sweden. The first gloves were produced for lumberjacks, where the work required durable gloves. As leather was Martin’s favourite material, he used cow and goat leather which he reinforced with rivets and extra leather strips (welts) in the seams. Martin had skied during his military service in Jämtland during the First World War. As was often the case in the rural area where he was born, he had also made his own skis out of birch, base waxed with wood tar. When working in the forest and out skiing, he wore his mother Adelina’s single-needle knitted gloves on his hands, made of wool taken from the farm’s own sheep. After being knitted, the mittens were felted with soapy water. Single-needle knitting followed by felting is now an almost forgotten technique, but it produced warm and hard-wearing gloves, although they didn’t last as long as leather gloves.
In the mid-1930s, a new sport arrived in Sweden: Slalom. Martin saw skiers making pilgrimages to the newly built slalom slope at Isaberg in Hestra. He enjoyed watching and may have dreamt about what might have been in his own youth if he’d had access to the same equipment instead of his long and ungainly birch skis. He discovered that skiers also needed durable gloves with special properties. Starting with his basic design, he began making skiing gloves along with his sons.
This tradition is continued today, 67 years later, in the hands of us, the third generation. There are many models and numerous areas of application, high-tech materials have been introduced and techniques developed. Even though Martin wouldn’t recognise the gloves today, his basic philosophy still lives on. We still make high quality gloves for active leisure and work. And leather is still our favourite material.
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