With Irish Crochet gauntlets, they are in the height of fashion and take just two balls of cotton

MATERIALS: Two balls of Avdern’s Lustrous Crochet Cotton, No. 40, and an Archer steel crochet hook, No. 5 (aparently, the 1.9 mm hook today)

SIZE AND TENSION: Worked at a tension of 4 loops to 1 inch in width, the gloves are the equivalente of a size 6,5 to 7

The pattern uses British crochet terminology and has a section of abbreviations.