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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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Awesome - thanks:-)

pelmetman wrote:Wot,........................................ No Pelmet Makers

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

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

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

pelmetman wrote: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

Thats the trouble with Cromwells Roundheads, no sense of adventue

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.

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.