List of Artisan Skills

[homegrown]

In an article on Transition Towns in the local paper was a small sidebar about the skills required to recreate a victroian town at work, they included;

Woodland crafts
coppicers, hoop-makers, peg-makers, charcoal burners, trug-makers, field-gate makers
Building crafts
Stonemasons, wallers, thatchers, slaters, paint-makers, glass-blowers, chimney sweeps
field crafts
Dry-stone wallers, well diggers, vinters,arborists,shepherds, beekeepers, millers, fishermen,
veternarians
worshop crafts
blacksmiths, wood turners, rope-makers, tanners, potters, paper-makers, gun smiths, candle makers
textile crafts
spinners, weavers, dyers, tailors, button-makers,quilters, leather workers, felt-makers, hatters
Domestic crafts
Fish smokers, brewers, pickle-makers, bakers, naturopaths, historians, midwives - and a village idiot!

my neighbour is certainly well qualified for the last role

[frozenthunderbolt]

I would find it immensely useful for a project i am working on the moment, if those knowledgeable in this area were to add to this list.

[homegrown]

FTB the article is from the christchurch press's your weekend section but google transition towns and there is a NZ site that can probably help

cheers homegrown

[Green Aura]

In our village we've got (underlined)
Woodland crafts
coppicers, hoop-makers, peg-makers, charcoal burners, trug-makers, field-gate makers
Building crafts
Stonemasons, wallers, thatchers, slaters, paint-makers, glass-blowers, chimney sweeps
field crafts
Dry-stone wallers, well diggers, vintners, arborists,shepherds, beekeepers, millers, fishermen,
veternarians
workshop crafts
blacksmiths, wood turners, rope-makers, tanners, potters, paper-makers, gun smiths, candle makers
textile crafts
spinners, weavers, dyers, tailors, button-makers,quilters, leather workers, felt-makers, hatters
Domestic crafts
Fish smokers, brewers, pickle-makers, bakers, naturopaths, historians, midwives - and a village idiot!

Wow!!!! And we've got an undertaker (could he dig wells too?) The woodland crafts are thin on the ground as we have no trees to speak of

[homegrown]

Thats alright we have hardly any of the list but we do have an awful lot of village idiots, does any body want trade some for a stonemason or something

[pelmetman]

Wot,........................................ No Pelmet Makers

[homegrown]

That was only a partial list, the complete list is apparently has over 200 artisans

[frozenthunderbolt]

Awesome - thanks:-)

[Gert]

Wot,........................................ No Pelmet Makers

lol, I think Pelmet making was seen as witchcraft back then.

[pelmetman]

Hi Gert,
Thats why we moved they started burning pelmet makers at the stake Can I interest you in an pelmet made from eye of bat and lizard skins is a specialty

[paul123456]

hello there ,

sadly nowadays the list of people would have to be completed with 40 bank managers and 450 civil servants to controll them ,

this would make it complete ,

regards ,

Paul

[Gert]

Hi Gert,
Thats why we moved they started burning pelmet makers at the stake Can I interest you in an pelmet made from eye of bat and lizard skins is a specialty

tempt me not with thy satanic pelmets for I am a god fearing man and shall not be woed into pelmetness, or something like that. Do i get an I love Cromwell car sticker for that little outburst

[pelmetman]

Thats the trouble with Cromwells Roundheads, no sense of adventue

[Millymollymandy]

Aren't your pelmets a bit more fancy Georgian than Victorian? I can just see them in the drawing room in some sort of Jane Austen drama. Victorians were a bit more into hideous clashing flowery wallpaper and furnishings weren't they, not unlike Laura Ashley come to think of it.

[pelmetman]

Hi MMM,

I will make Georgian, Victorian, Art Deco, Modern, Minimalist, Anglo Saxon bascially anything that will that will earn a crust as there is a recession on, but I have to say touch wood I have'nt been this busy since I semi retired
Mind you this week was a first for me recovering a Lambrequin (french for long pelmet) in camouflage fabric Not my design just asked to recover picture attached, there are two of them for a teenagers bedroom.