The greater crafts such as the
fishmongers, skinners, and the corders (made rope, canvas, and
pitch) organized and ultimately were recognized by town
authorities as self-governing craft guilds. The building trade
guilds such as the tilers, carpenters, masons, and joiners, became
important. Masons were still itinerant, going to sites of
churches, public buildings, or commanded by the king to work on
castles. The guild was not necessarily associated with a specific
product. For instance, a saddle and bridle were the result of work
of four crafts: joiner (woodworker), painter, saddler (leather),
and lorimer (metal trappings).
In London in 1392 craft guilds included: baker, fishmonger (cut up
and sold fish), fruiterer, brewer, butcher, bird dealer, cook,
apothecary (sold potions he had ground up), cutler (made knives
and spoons), barber, tailor, shoemaker, glover (made gloves),
skinner (sold furs), girdler (made girdles of cloth to wear around
one's waist), pouchmaker, armorer, sheathmaker, weaver, fuller,
painter, carpenter, joiner (woodworker who finished interior
woodwork such as doors and made furniture), tiler, mason (cut
stone for buildings), smith (made metal tools for stonemasons and
builders), tallow chandler (made candles and sometimes soap from
the fat and grease the housewife supplied), wax chandler (made
candles), stirrup maker, spurrier (made spurs), and hosteler
(innkeeper).
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