Language/scripts of material: English, Latin and French, To assist the user the catalogue has been arranged in sections each with an archival classification number as follows: CLC/L/CJ/A Consitutional records, CLC/L/CJ/B Court records, CLC/L/CJ/C Membership records, CLC/L/CJ/D Financial records, CLC/L/CJ/E Trade records, CLC/L/CJ/F Clerk's records, CLC/L/CJ/G Charities and estates. The Honourable Cordwainers' Company The college aims to be a global provider of services in design, technology, production and management for the footwear, fashion accessories, art and design, leathergoods, saddlery and allied industries. [1], In 1984 a group of shoemakers and historians founded the Honourable Cordwainers' Company as a modern guild; they drew up its charter in the following year. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Documents, Images and A history of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers of the City of London by Clive Willcocks (2008). 288 pages, with numerous illustrations (Vol.I &II bound together). ), and initially denoted a worker in cordwain or cordovan, the leather historically produced in Moorish Crdoba, Spain in the Middle Ages, as well as, more narrowly, a shoemaker. closed. Guildhall Library reference L 37:C 796. The Manuscripts Section merged with London Metropolitan Archives in 2008. The Cordwainers have supported the museum with a grant to help improve the shoe collection. Cordwainers are shoemakers and the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers is one of the oldest. [10] Today, many makers of bespoke shoes will also repair their own work, but shoe repairers are not normally in a position to manufacture new footwear. 5) O'Sullivan, John, The Art and Mystery of the Gentle Craft, London, 1834. [1][8], According to the OED, the term is now considered obsolete except where it persists in the name of a trade-guild or company, or where otherwise employed by trade unions.[8].
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