Guild Tailors at the Pardubice Manor in the 16th Century and the Intergenerational Transfer of Their Production Experience

• Authors: Šimša Martin

Title variants

CS

Cechovní krejčí na pardubickém panství v 16. století a mezigenerační přenos jejich výrobních zkušeností

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The producers of garments and the intergenerational transfer of their experience were always among important tools to mediate new clothing trends and innovations. Based on the quantitative research into archival sources from the 16th century, the study tries to outline basic contours of this process, and − using several quantitative examples from the Pardubice manor − present their participants. In the region under study, tailors settled mainly in the city of Pardubice, and in small towns of Sezemice, Dašice, Přelouč, Bohdaneč, and Holice. However, individual masters also worked in several villages. Tailors formed a diverse social structure that included owners of city houses, farmers, gardeners, and poor farm hands living in rented rooms. Many parents considered apprenticeship to be a suitable way of securing the future for their children. In addition to quite a small group of young men from tailor families, it was primarily children from gardener and farmer families whose inheritance shares helped them to pay high costs associated with the apprenticeship and the subsequent journey. The employment prospects of the newly trained tailors are as yet unclear. While the sons from tailor families mostly joined the trade easily, for the others we know only that they farmed on one of the farmsteads, but there is no evidence that they operated the tailoring trade

Keywords

EN

Craft; tailor guild; master; journeyman; trainee; Pardubice manor

• Publisher: The National Institute of Folk Culture
• Journal: Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 33
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 127 - 141

Contributors

author

Šimša Martin