Tailor was considered a rare, privileged and, perhaps, not a peasant occupation. But nevertheless, there were a lot of them in many villages in Russia's North-West.
To have a Singer sewing machine (sheath or hand) was considered the main attribute of a tailor. The tailor carried his machine on sleds during the winter. He would settle by the village for long time sewing coats, hats, coats, fancy jackets. All the other kinds of clothing women produced themselves come out in a different way each.
To quilt blankets, women gathered together, headed by a very meticulous master.
Furriers or tanners...
According to the stories, they could be met infrequently, and over the past half-century, they were completely extinct. Furrier trade, meanwhile, was taken by nobodies and got done somehow. Shoemakers criticized customers for poor tanning. Boots shrivel; mercilessly rub the feet, and it turns out that the guilty side is the cobbler. Tanning leather and sheepskin are complex, time-consuming and not very pleasant work: the stench of leather, fermented in the rye flour and not tolerated by all. For tanning hides was used willow bark.
Hunters have usually treated skins by themselves. Hunters may well be also attributed to a particular professional group, but people have always treated them with a shade of light irony. Just as fishermen and beekeepers, people who are not engaged in agriculture. In conjunction with other forest trades, the same hunting skills, and even better with arable farming, would bring a man more material benefits and other respect.
About hunt can be said a lot, about it is written hundreds of articles and books. Over time, hunting art has obviously degenerated; hunting became a sport and everyday fun. However, real professional hunters still remain in some places.
The saddlers have also disappeared, but it was once a flourishing profession. The lives of Russian people and peasants mainly were tightly related to the horse, the horse wagon, and horse pulls; there was always a singular attitude to the harness, the pointed arches, Valdai bells and road songs.
However, fastening the clamp is more challenging than bawling a rowdy song or tearing fifteen to twenty miles in a sleigh. The wooden castors (the clamp frame) were fastened by belts at the top to be spread at the bottom. To it was attached a made of leather, stuffed with straw "roll," felt was put inside, and all covered with leather again. The clamp was made by the size - big or small.
A saddler is a shoemaker who depends on the furrier. All harnesses are often decorated with embossing, soldered plaques and leather tassels. The reins, made from ropes, not leather, were considered a disgrace, even in a family of moderate means.
Tar-makers were also needed in peasant labour and life. Tar was produced from birch bark, stuffing it in ceramic vessels called cubes. These cubes, embedded into the ovens, were heated from below and from them, tar flowed out, so valuable for the household. It was used for lubrication of shoes, wheels, swings, harnesses, carts, the manufacture of drugs, scare away flies, etc.
Resin-makers used dry distillation the same way, but instead of birch bark, they put dry pitch pine roots in a ceramic vessel. Coal makers lived in the woods for weeks. They dig large holes, filling them with wood and burned. The trick was timing to put down this gigantic bonfire, close the gap with turf and extinguish the embers. If you put it down too early, instead of coal would be left smouldering; if too late, it will be ash only left. Imagine what coal-makers looked like when they lived in the woods for weeks! Coal-makers supplied charcoal to local blacksmiths and sold their products in urban areas.
Wheel makers, producers of hub wheels, birch runners and other parts of the carriage also interacted with the blacksmiths. They were settled, but sawyers of hew, tinkers, forgers of millstones and sickles makers travelled to the villages. Rarely would you see weavers of fishnets because everyone, who had to deal with water and fish, often used to make up a gear himself?
At the fairs and villages sometimes appeared the utensils makers and grinders with all kinds of boxes. All counties had their own midwives, mourners, and caretakers; their bell ringers were also in every parish. There was the influence of different types of skills; the professional skill was not insulated. Looking for an excellent earthen vessel, the carpenter was infected with excitement of good work and tried to show off his chair to the potter. Such competition quietly pushed a master to real art.
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