Almanac – Leatherworkers, Smiths, and Woodworkers Guilds
October 24th, 2013This week’s Almanac entry are three more guilds – leatherworkers, smiths, and woodworkers. These three guilds fill out many of the everyday craftsmen and women in Sherbourg. Economics is serious business in the colony with commerce and politics and power all tangled up together.
I have some reservation about the woodworker guild sign. The wood plane in the illustration is copied on modern, metal plane which have become standard only in the second half of XXth century. I doubt any planes would be used by carpenters of French ruled Canada, which seems to give a grounding to this fantasy world. They would rather use adzes or other kinds of small axes to roughly dress their works. And for fine furniture, the planes they used would be more like blocks of wood with an hole for the blade: look at the old ones recovered from a carrack that are shown in the wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(tool) , not much different from the ones my grandfather would use.
Historical accuracy aside….
OHGODOHGODOHGOD HOW DO I JOIN?!
A typo in the description of the Woodworker’s guild: The last sentence has the word “plane” in two places.