Differing Responses to an Industrialising Economy - eTheses ...

Textile, clothing and paper:
Male: clothier, weavers (of various types), webster, hatter, hosier, tailor, bodice-maker,
staymaker, dyer, woolstapler, woolcomber, jersey-comber, flax-dresser, hemp-dresser,
ropemaker, ropier, feltmaker, clothworker, papermaker, oilclothmaker, men’s frockmaker,
straw hat maker.
Female: sempstress, seamstress, dressmaker, mantua-maker, milliner, bonnet-maker,
tailoress, weaver, spinner, spinster.
Leather, horn and tallow:
Male: shoemaker, cordw(a)in(d)er, clogmaker, (shoe-)heelmaker, pattenmaker, glover,
saddler, harness-maker, collar-maker, (tallow) chandler, comb-maker, horner, fellmonger,
skinner, currier, tanner, leather-dresser, breechesmaker.
Female: glover(ess), shoe-binder, boot-binder, boot-closer.
Although the terms bootmaker, shoemaker, cordwainer, cordwinder and cobbler
may have meant slightly different things to local folk in the past, they were often used
interchangeably and are grouped together for analysis. In practice, the term ‘cobbler’ was
rarely used locally, and another term for a cobbler, ‘translator’ only occurs in the 1680s.
Clogmakers, pattenmakers and heelmakers may be using other materials than leather but
are generally discussed in this section. Breechesmakers occur in the period 1750-1820, no
doubt when such clothing was in fashion. In most cases the breechesmakers appear to be
working in leather. The Latin ‘coriarius’ may mean ‘tanner’ or ‘currier’. Skinners, glovers
and fellmongers were often the same people.
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