These are long good quality welding leather hand glove. In these gloves leather is stiched together with internal stitches as sparks and heat often cut the thread used to make the glove causing them to fall apart but iin these gloves this cannot happen as the stitches are inside.Better quality glove because the better the quality of glove, the fewer pieces of leather will have been used to make it as there is less stitching where the glove can fail. Therefore this is the better welding glove.