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by Mari ingen Briain meic Donnchada (Kathleen M. O'Brien)
© 2002-2013 by Kathleen M. O'Brien. All rights reserved.
Version 1.6, updated 18 May 2013
| someone who makes | someone who uses | someone who sells | |
| fabric |
Clothier (RW p. 101 s.n. Clothier) le Clothmongere (RW p. 101 s.n. Clothier) Clothman (RW p. 101 s.n. Clothier) |
Broudester (embroiderer) Semester Sewer (sews) Sewster (sews) |
Clothier (RW p. 101 s.n. Clothier) le Clothmongere (RW p. 101 s.n. Clothier) Clothman (RW p. 101 s.n. Clothier) le Draper |
| linen | Lyner |
la Lynwebbe (linen weaver) Lyner | |
| silk |
Silk Silkman (silk man) la Selkwimman (silk woman) |
Silk Silkman (silk man) la Selkwimman (silk woman) | |
| wool |
Lalner (RW p. 269) a wool-monger Wooller (RW p. 502 s.n Wooller) Wollemongere le Wollestere (RW p. 502 s.n Wooller) |
Wooller (RW p. 502 s.n Wooller) Wollestere | Woollman |
| combing & carding |
Carder (Bardsley, p. 159-160) Cardmaker (Bardsley, p. 160) Kember (wool-comber) Kempster (wool-comber) le Pineresse (comber of wool or flax) |
| spinning |
le Rockare Rokster (works with a distaff) Spinner Spinster Wheelspinner |
| weaving |
Grenewebbe (weaver of green cloth) la Lynwebbe (linen weaver) Weaver Webb Webber (weaver) Webman (weaver) Webster (weaver) |
| processing raw cloth |
Dresser Feltere (felts cloth) le Fuller (scours and thickens cloth in water) le Fulun (a fuller - scours and thickens cloth in water) le Sherere (shears nap) Sherman (shears nap) Tucker Walker Walkster |
| dyeing & bleaching |
Blacker (bleacher) Blackster (bleacher) Cork (cloth-dyer who uses cork 'a purple or red dye-stuff') Corker (cloth-dyer who uses cork 'a purple or red dye-stuff') le Corklittster (cloth-dyer who uses cork 'a purple or red dye-stuff') Dyer Dyster le Litster (a dyer) Stepere (steeps flax, cloth, etc., probably a bleacher) Wader Wadster |
| cutting |
Shaper Shapistre |
| someone who makes | someone who uses | someone who sells | |
| cord |
Lace (RW p. 269 s.n. Lace) maker of cord or string | ||
| lace |
Frisell (RW p. 178 s.n. Frisell) makes lace or ribbon | ||
| nets (hair and other) |
Fretter (RW p. 7 s.n. Fretter) makes network that includes jewels or flowers le Botoner (RW p. 76 s.n. Butner) | ||
| thread |
Threader Thrower |
Broudester (embroiderer) |
| someone who makes | someone who uses | someone who sells | |
| clothes in general |
le Feliper (RW p. 166 s.n. Felliper) | ||
| bags | le Poghwebbe ('bag-weaver') | ||
| buttons |
Boton (RW p. 7 s.n. Button) le Botoner (RW p. 76 s.n. Butner) | ||
| chauses (leather breeches) |
Chaucer | ||
| cloaks |
Cloak (RW p. 101 s.n. Cloak) falding (RW p. 161 s.n. Falding) |
Cloak (RW p. 101 s.n. Cloak) falding (RW p. 161 s.n. Falding) | |
| coif |
le Coifstere Coyfer | ||
| dress |
Shaper Shapistre | ||
| girdles |
Girdelar | ||
| gloves |
le Ganter Glover |
le Ganter Glover | |
| hats |
le Chapeler Hatmaker Hatt Hatter |
le Chapeler Hatter | |
| hoods | Redhod (RW p. 375 s.n. Redhood) 'red hood' | ||
| hose | |||
| pattens |
Patin (RW p. 341 s.n. Pattern) Patener Patynmaker | ||
| pouches |
Poche ('pouch') Poucher Pouchmaker | ||
| shoes |
Souster Souter la Souteres | ||
| skirts |
Whiteskyrtes ('white skirts') | ||
| slops (loose hose reaching to just below the knee) |
Sloper le Sclopmongere |
Sloper | |
| smocks | Smoker | ||
| tabards | Tabard (RW p. 439 s.n. Tabard) | ||
| wimples |
Wimpler Wimplester le Wymppelwebbe |
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