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Christian:
Hi Martin,


Nice to see You and Your figures in the Forum!!


Like them!!!


Bg Christian

kroi:
Lovely. I certainly will visit your stall at Kulmbach.
Do you know this: https://hausbuecher.nuernberg.de/   Craftsmen, craftsmen and... craftsmen.

AndräM:
I am new here in the forum, but I have already engraved pewter figures for 45 years, in the meantime 1400 of them have been created under my hands. I will now present the figures that are available from me here step by step:

I will start here with the dealers and craftsmen, an exciting and never-ending topic:

Drawings and engravings Martin Andrä
Craftsmen and traders I
HH01 The Bagman
(HH01a - bench with pieces of cloth/leather)

Beutlers were leather craftsmen who made dainty leather or cloth pouches to be worn on the belt for coins and small belongings. These pouches consisted of a circular piece of leather with a perforated edge for a string to be pulled through. Such spherical or pear-shaped pouches were used mainly as money bags until modern times.
The looter depicted here is sewing a pouch. An almost finished bag, pieces of leather or fabric and a pair of scissors hanging on the side of the table are lying on the table. Already finished bags are hanging from the suggested framework. Pieces of leather or fabric are lying on the adjacent bench.

HH02 The cloth rower
(HH02a - Stool with cards, HH02b - Stack of cloth)

In the further processing of woollen cloth, it was necessary to loosen the surface again after the cloth had been compressed by fulling. The cloth roughener roughens the cloth with a card, which consists of a wooden frame and card thistles fixed on it in several rows. As the wear and tear on cards was quite great, he always had a large supply of them lying around.

HH03 The card maker
(HH03a - basket with card thistles, HH03b finished cards
cards, lined up in a box)


The card maker is sitting at a table with a basket of card thistles beside him. He arranges these card thistles next to each other to form a lax tuft, which he then lashes with cords and ties onto a frame - consisting of a handle with two crossbars - for better handling by the cloth weaver.

HH04 The pergamenter
(HH04a - Tensioning frame, HH04b - Calcareous trough, HH04c - Stool with scraper)

The pergamenter shown here smoothes the dry skin stretched on a frame.

The skin was previously soaked for several weeks in the ashtray - a solution of lime and water - and then rinsed, fleshed, depilated and rinsed again several times. In contrast to tanning, the skin is now stretched on a frame and dried. This tension is now constantly corrected, partially re-moistened, in order to achieve even drying. The best parchment is made from the skin of calves. Almost all of the valuable Gospels and splendid Bibles of the Middle Ages that have survived are written on calf parchment. Mostly, however, sheepskin was used to make parchment, as these animals were available in large quantities.

HH05 The Cloth Shearer
(HH05a - Catching rack for the finished cloth,
HH05b - wall board with cloth shears)


The cloth shearer shown here smoothes the surface of the cloth previously worked on by the cloth shearer. To do this, he cuts off protruding threads with the cloth scissors. The cloth shear is a special shear with wide, long blades, the lower of which was called a lieger and the upper a runner.

HH06 The bookkeeper
(HH06a - barrel, HH06b - stool with books,
AL03 - writing desk)

A bookman trades with books. These were stored in wooden barrels for transport and thus protected from the weather. The bookseller depicted here takes out or fills barrels with books.

More here: https://www.zinnfiguren-andrae.de/HPAndr%C3%A4/?page_id=286
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