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Guildsman. BY: Amanda Brown. Characteristics. Strong Generous Hard-Working Crafty. Strong. The guildsmen needed to have strength when working in careers such as : blacksmithing, carpentering, and tapestry making.
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Guildsman BY: Amanda Brown
Characteristics • Strong • Generous • Hard-Working • Crafty
Strong • The guildsmen needed to have strength when working in careers such as : blacksmithing, carpentering, and tapestry making. • blacksmiths molded metal into swords and other materials that the town needed. • Carpentry involved hammering, sawing, and holding up huge wooden structures. • Tapestries were heavy wall furnishings that were made of fabric. Some were extremely heavy.
Tapestries • Tapestries were used to protect medieval rooms from the weather; they were used to warm up the castle! • Tapestries could be as large as • five yards (15 feet) high by eight yards (24 feet) wide!
Sword Making Blacksmith http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9q4OL344_8
Generous The wives of the guildsman were spoiled! Wives thought all the money was theirs and not their husbands’. Wives wanted to be treated as royalty.
Hard-Working • It took lots of energy to work all day and be physically worn down by the hour! It was not a day in the office! • Blacksmithing was not a fast job; it took hard work to customize a sword. • They had to work hard to make money to make their wives happy.
crafty • Guildsmen hand crafted beautiful swords. • Tapestries were hung up on the walls of royal people, so they needed to be flawless and sophisticated. • Carpentering huge wooded pieces meant carving in decorations which took talent and perfection. • Making carpets took perfection and a person who paid attention to detail.
Carpentering Designs
Resources • http://thebestnotes.com/booknotes/Canterbury_Tales/Canterbury_Tales39.html • http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tapm/hd_tapm.htm • http://www.millefleurstapestries.com/en/history-of-tapestries • http://hkcarms.tripod.com/oc5.html • http://www.medieval-life-and-times.info/medieval-life/medieval-blacksmith.htm