The Leatherworker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg / Being an Account of the Nature of Leather, & of the Crafts Commonly Engaged in the Making & Using of It.

by Thomas K. Ford

Two styles of carriage harness, one quite elaborate, the other fairly simple; both of the “breast-collar” rather than the now more familiar “neck-collar” type. Diderot.

CHIEF LEATHER CRAFTS

A list compiled in London in 1422 recorded 111 groups or guilds of merchants and craftsmen then active in that city. Fourteen of these concerned themselves with leather or with articles made of it in large part:

cofferers

cordwainers

curriers

girdlers

glovers

leather dyers

leathersellers