For knitters, crocheters, colourists and artists
For hands that were told to stop.
You know the twenty-minute mark. The ache at the base of your thumb that stops being background noise and starts deciding when you put the work down.
This is a soft knit sleeve that cushions that one joint and leaves your fingers completely free. You can work in them from the first stitch, the first line, the first brush stroke.
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If this sounds familiar
It is not just you, and it is not in your head.
Three things tend to be true at once.
The work has a time limit now. The ache at the base of the thumb stops being background noise and starts deciding when you put the work down.
Resting helps, and then it does not. Put the work down for a week and it settles. Pick it back up and it is back inside the hour.
The braces you tried held the wrong part. A wrist brace holds the wrist, and the thumb carries on moving. Compression gloves cover the fingers, which is exactly where you need to feel what you are doing.
The next section explains what is actually happening.
Why it keeps coming back
Your thumb joint shifts about a thousand times an hour while you work.
At the base of your thumb there is a small saddle joint. It is what lets your thumb swivel and pinch, and it is the joint doing the work every time you pinch a needle, a pencil, a hook or a brush.
Years of that wear the cartilage thin and leave the capsule around the joint slack. So each time you repeat the movement, the joint shifts a fraction past where it should sit.
One shift you would never feel. But it is a thousand an hour.
That is why resting works right up until you start again, and why a wrist brace never helped: it was holding a different bone.
Unsupported
The joint slides sideways under each small movement. The tissue around it swells trying to hold it still.
Cushioned
The pad sits over the joint and the knit holds it gently. Nothing touches the fingers.
Simplified illustration of joint movement, not an anatomical diagram.
Who it is for
The same joint, whatever is in your hands.
It was designed around the pinch and tension movement of needlework, which turns out to be the same movement almost every handcraft is built on.
Knitting and crochet. Hours of tensioning yarn, and a hook loads the thumb base harder than needles do.
Colouring and coloured pencil work. Burnishing is sustained heavy pressure, and pressing lightly does not give you a softer result, it gives you no result.
Drawing, inking and calligraphy. A pencil held in a tripod grip is a pinch you hold for as long as you are working.
Hand quilting, cross stitch and embroidery. The same pinch, repeated for a whole afternoon.
Painting and model work. A brush held steady for fine detail is a long, static load on one joint.
What you're actually getting
No straps to fiddle with, no plastic shell, nothing rigid. One piece of knitted fabric that pulls on like a glove and disappears while you work.
The pad sits over the joint
A soft cushioned oval is built into the palm side, directly over the base of the thumb. Nothing to position yourself.
Your thumb stays free
The thumb passes through an opening and everything above the base is bare, so you keep the full pinch your work needs.
All four fingers uncovered
Nothing sits over the fingers or the knuckles. Tension, pressure and grip feel exactly as they did before.
Ribbed cuff, no straps
It pulls on like a sleeve. No velcro to catch on your work, nothing to tighten or readjust halfway through.
Steady Hands
We make one thing, for one kind of hand.
We are not a medical company and we do not want to be one. The braces on the pharmacy shelf were designed for a wrist, or a factory line, or someone recovering from an operation. None of them were designed for the specific, repetitive, thousand-times-an-hour movement of small work done by hand: a stitch, a line, a brush stroke.
That is the only thing we design for. You should not have to choose between your hands and the thing you make with them.
Sixty days. Work in them.
Wear them through two months of real evenings, real projects, real deadlines. If your hands are not better off for it, send them back and we will refund you in full.
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