Men's cuffs
The cuffs on men's mittens, men's cuffs (short cuffs/two thread cuffs), have a short purl stitch border of a few rows, max 2 cm.
On older mittens the purl stitch border could be knitted using two colors. As an exception there are men's mittens with lace cuff borders, but this is knitted as a picot edge, short like the purl stitch edge. The remainder of the cuffs there would contain a larger pattern border, or a combination of smaller borders, 6.5 - 8 cm in total.
Mittens with longer lace cuffs, that were used folded over, have been known from neighboring parishes. There are also examples of twined knitting i in the transition to the main pattern and with twined kitting and fringes.
Men's mittens usually have several borders around the wrist, often one large and one or several smaller borders in the cuff itself. The oldest mittens often had a star patterned border and some sort of lace cuff border.
when choosing a border for the wrist it's usually best to choose a border which pattern configurations fits the number of stitches in the mitten blade, or the support, or possibly something in between, so that you increase the number of stitches by a few to knit the border, and a few more to knit the blade.
