Medieval Guilds

While many of the following would have no place in our modern world the list does give a fairly good idea of how many skills we've lost in our communities.

The names of some of the Medieval London Guilds included the following:

• Apothecaries
• Armourers & Brasiers (armour-makers and workers in brass)
• Bakers
• Barbers (also surgeons and dentists)
• Basketmakers
• Blacksmiths
• Bowyers (longbow makers)
• Brewers
• Broderers (embroiderers)
• Butchers
• Carpenters
• Chandlers (candle makers)
• Clothworkers
• Cordwainers (workers in fine leather)
• Curriers (dressers of tanned leather)
• Cutlers
• Dyers
• Farriers (shoers of horses)
• Fishmongers
• Fletchers (arrow makers)
• Girdlers (girdles and belts as clothing)
• Goldsmiths
• Loriners (stirrups and other harness for horses)
• Masons
• Mercers (general merchants)
• Needlemakers
• Pattenmakers (makers of wooden clog-style footwear)
• Plaisterers (plasterers)
• Plumbers
• Poulters
• Saddlers
• Salters
• Scriveners (writers of court letters and legal documents)
• Skinners
• Tallow chandlers (Candle makers)
• Upholders (upholsterers)
• Vintners
• Wax Chandlers ( candle makers)
• Weavers
• Wheelwrights
• Woolmen (winders and packers of wool)