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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 20 Hestra Products in the following categories:

Gloves (20)
HESTRA GEAR HOT PRODUCTS
Our Shop Admnistrators hand pick products and these are our Hestra Hot Picks:

Hestra Heli - Mens Heli - Mens
The Hestra Army Leather Heli Ski glove is a full-featured gauntlet glove for those who appreciate de ... $100.00

Hestra Ski Cross Ski Cross
Rally down the mountain with the Hestra Leather Ski Cross Glove, and try to stay ahead of the pack. ... $94.46

Hestra Vertical Cut Freeride Vertical Cut Freeride
The Hestra Vertical Cut Freeride glove is a stealth black leather warrior. Its short cut fits neatly ... $97.96

Hestra Guide Leather - Mens 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 ... $90.96

Hestra Heli 3 Finger Heli 3 Finger
The Army Leather 3-Finger glove gives you the warmth of mittens combined with the dexterity of glove ... $100.00

Hestra XCR Short 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

Hestra XCR XCR
Take on the steepest and the deepest in the Hestra Army Leather Gore-Tex XCR Ski Glove. This glove i ... $130.00

Hestra Fall Line Fall Line
Designed and tested by top freeskiers like Henrik Windstedt, the Hestra Fall Line Glove gives you pe ... $73.47

Hestra Anthony Boronowski Pro Anthony Boronowski Pro
Hestra designed the Anthony Boronowski Pro Gloves with backcountry freeriding in mind. For his signa ... $119.95

HESTRA COMPANY & BRAND INFORMATION
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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