Medieval Trades

For this assignment, our teacher assigned us to look up medieval trades such as shops and tools in the Middle Ages. We can either search up online or use books for this assignment. We have to write a description for each tool and shop in the medieval times and how many meters was for one person's farmland back then.

Shops:

There were many well known shops back them in Medieval times. Here are some of them and their jobs:

Interior of Medieval Carpenter:

Carpenters build or repair wooden structures such as houses, scaffolding, windows, arches, etc.
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 Interior of Medieval Cobbler:

Cobblers are people who fix or repair shoes for a li
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Interior of Medieval Glover:


Glover are people who makes or sell gloves.
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Interior of Medieval Blacksmith:


Blacksmith were people who repaired and sharpened building tools. They basically repair stuff made from iron like horseshoes.
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Interior of Medieval Tinker:


Tinkers traveled to different places and they make money by repairing small items such as pots and pan. 
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Interior of Medieval Potter:





Potters are workers who make bowls,pots,plates out of clay and by their own hands.
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Interior of Medieval Cooper:


Cooper are workers who repairs or mends wooden casks or barrels.
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Interior of Medieval Wheeler (wheelwright):


Wheeler are people or workers who repairs or makes wheels and wheel vehicles. They also sell it too.
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Interior of Medieval Tanner:


Tanner are workers who sell and make clothing or shoes out of leather. 
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Interior of Medieval Baker:


Bakers are people or workers who bake and cell cakes, bread, etc.
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Interior of Medieval Butcher:


A butcher are workers or people who kill animals and cut meat such as pig, chickens, and cows. When are finished cutting and cleaning it, they sell them to other people in the town.
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Interior of Medieval Barber:


A Barber is a person or worker who cuts people hair. They were also doctors and surgeon back then.
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Interior of Medieval Tailor:


A tailor is a worker or person who makes clothes such as suits, pants, jackets, etc and sell them to other people.
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Interior of Medieval Fuller:


A fuller is when workers use people's urine to and is used as cleansing and whitening cloths.
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Interior of Medieval Miller:


A miller is a person or worker who grinds grain into flour by using a wheel or a milling machine.
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Interior of Medieval Brewer:


A brewer is a person who boils ale or beer. They also sell them and ferment malt and hops.
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Tools:
There were a lot of tools back them in the middle ages that people used for building and other stuffs. Here are most of the tools the people back then used:

Tools of a Blacksmith:


This is some of the stuff that blacksmith. They use the anvil and hammer to shape the iron metals. They also use bellows to put air into the fireplace when in the process of making so it could burn faster.
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Tools of a Carpenter:


Some of the tools carpenter use were axes. They were used to shape and cut wood in order to build stuff with it. Chisels were also used back then to cut along the grain of the wood to make small holes. Saws were made to cut wood into smaller pieces. Braces were also used back then to create smaller holes.
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Tools of a Cobbler:


Cobblers use this thing called an awl and it is designed for poking small holes in leather when making shoes. There are two types of awls. Make sure you get the right one!
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Tools of a Tinker:


This tool is called a smith. It is used for fixing lanterns. Tinkers use this tool by applying to the joint between the metal object to unite them. They also use shears.
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Tools of a Potter:


The tool that a potter uses is a wheel. They firstly get clay and place it on the wheel's head and form the interior bottom of the vessel.
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Tools of a Cooper:



The tool coopers use are called an adze. They were used to drill in stuff. Barrels was not an easy thing to make. Some of the barrel's part were called staves,hoops,etc. 
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Tools of a Wheeler (wheelwright):


These are some of the tools that a wheeler used back then. One of these tools is called a drawknife. It was used with both hands to round the edges of wood and making it sharply clean.
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Tools of a Tanner:


Tanners used tools such as lunalarium which is kind of like a blade, stretching tray,etc. This picture is what a tannery looked like back then.
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Tools of a Baker:



Bakers had a cooking oven in the medieval kitchen as shown in the picture. People would use spits, which is a long wooden stick and it kind of looks like a paddle where you put food on and roast or cook it in the fireplace/oven. There is a stool where you can sit too.
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Tools of a Butcher:


Butchers used knifes or different types of meat cleavers to by slaughtering or cutting ducks,cows,pigs,dogs,chickens,etc. Back then, it made food produced very clean and people would enjoy it.
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Tools of a Barber:


Barbers weren't just for cutting people's hair. They were also doctors. One of the tools they used back then were called bone cutters. Bone cutters were used to allow cutting in the skin so that it could reach the bone. Another item they used back then was called an arrow puller. It was meant to put around the base of the arrow, while the sharp scissors would cut the skin.
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Tools of a Tailor:


One of the tools tailors used were called thimbles. This was made so when you sew clothing, the needle wouldn't stab your or go into your skin. It protects your skin. they also used iron for straightening clothes. 
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Tools of a Fuller:


Fuller's job was to clean cloth and people used urine or bleach and sticks to stir.
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Tools of a Miller:


Millers back then made a machine to grind grains into flour.
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Tools of a Brewer:


Some of the brewer's tools used back then were wooden containers, pots to put the ingredients inside. Brewers would brew ale,beer, etc. They also got grain and took it to the mill to be made into flour and then brew it.
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Tools of a Glover:


One of the tools that were used back then was leather for making gloves.
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Question:

Back then in medieval times, the farmland to support one person was 1 acre. One acre converted to meters is 4046.86 meters! That is a lot!