Linen Craft by Mediterranean Interiors

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A guild ( GILD) is an association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade in a particular territory. The earliest types of guild formed as organizations of tradespeople belonging to a professional association. They sometimes depended on grants of letters patent from a monarch or other ruler to enforce the flow of trade to their self-employed members, and to retain ownership of tools and the supply of materials, but most were regulated by the local government. Guild members found guilty of cheating the public would be fined or banned from the guild. A lasting legacy of traditional guilds are the guildhalls constructed and used as guild meeting-places. Typically the key "privilege" was that only guild members were allowed to sell their goods or practice their skill within the city. There might be controls on minimum or maximum prices, hours of trading, numbers of apprentices, and many other things. Critics argued that these rules reduced free competition, but defenders maintained that they protected professional standards. An important result of the guild framework was the emergence of universities at Bologna (established in 1088), Oxford (at least since 1096) and Paris (c. 1150); they originated as guilds of students (as at Bologna) or of masters (as at Paris).

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Article Title : Guild
Article Snippet :association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade in a particular territory. The earliest types of guild formed as organizations
Article Title : Pleated linen
Article Snippet :Pleated linen is a form of processing linen which results in a fabric which is heavily pleated and does not crease like normal linen fabric. The earliest
Article Title : Lace
Article Snippet :its origins. Originally linen, silk, gold, or silver threads were used. Now lace is often made with cotton thread, although linen and silk threads are still
Article Title : Japanese craft
Article Snippet :Ryūkyū Islands Textile crafts include silk, hemp, linen and cotton woven, dyed and embroidered into various forms—from crafts originating from folk designs
Article Title : Silesian weavers' uprising
Article Snippet :began to mechanize. In several towns this traditional craft died out altogether, costing many linen weavers their profession. As social conditions worsened
Article Title : List of knitting stitches
Article Snippet :stitch Linen stitch is a pattern that creates a tightly knit fabric that resembles woven linen. Tailored garments are especially suited for the linen stitch
Article Title : Doily
Article Snippet :custom of finger bowls, once common in formal, multi-course dinners. The linen doily (never paper) separates the dessert plate from the finger bowl. The
Article Title : HCA Red List of Endangered Crafts
Article Snippet :The Red List of Endangered Crafts is an inventory of traditional crafts and trades practiced in the UK that are at risk of dying out in the succeeding
Article Title : Piña
Article Snippet :19th century pañuelo in the Metropolitan Museum of Art made from piña and linen 19th century cotton and piña textile in the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design
Article Title : Culture of Northern Ireland
Article Snippet :administered by the National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland. The Linen Hall Library, the oldest library in Belfast, has endured many changes of

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