Řemesla a živnosti v Čechách: truhláři v královském věnném městě Poličce

Title:

Řemesla a živnosti v Čechách: truhláři v královském věnném městě Poličce
Trades and crafts in Bohemia: cabinet makers in the royal dowry town of Polička

Creator:

Ebelová, Iva and Křížová, Markéta

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:5d739892-90fe-4765-ab9b-bb86a1a59038
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Format:

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Description:

As opposed to other trades closely connected with building activities there was up to now little attention dedicated to the cabinet-making. Usually it has been studied on the basis of concrete production of preservedpieces and the trade as such, its organization, the structure of guildproduction, its personal composition etc. has been left aside. From the preserved sources of the guild provenance we can conclude that the main bloom of the guild production, or better to say of some trades (in particular the building ones) in the royal dowry town of Polička had started only after the Thirty-Year War. More numerous trades had made individual guilds, smaller groups of artisans associated and created common guilds. The smiths, cabinet-makers, locksmiths, towel-makers, turners and glaziers of Polička joined into a common „guild of the nine“. Even though the sources relative to this „guild of the nine“ for the given period were preserved in relative abundance (books of the masters, of the journeymen, books of counts, protocols of guild meetings, and also certificates of apprenticeship, certificates of journeymen, masters' certificates), to cabinet-makers refers only a slight portion of them. To obtain further, at least partial knowledge on the activities of cabinet-makers in Polička in the first half of the nineteenth century one must turn to the sourcesproduced by the municipal authorities that contain, among others, confirmations of apprenticeships and the journeymen's wanderings, the petitions for licens e to carry on the trade in the town and especially the petitions for bestowal of the master's right, eventually the records of the process of obtaining this right that in some cases contain also the data on the course of the master's examination or the making of the masterpiece. The cabinet-makers, called also table-makers, represent the main group within the frame of the trades dedicated to the wood-processing. Their constituting into separate guilds falls in general to more recent times then was the case of traditional guild trades (especially the textile and the alimentary ones). The case of Polička shows the proof of this fact. Almost in the mid-nineteenth century, in a complete contradiction to the tendencies that were being enforced in the handicraftproduction, in the time when the guild already passed their zenith and were approaching the final stage of their existence, on February 19, 1849 the cabinet-makers left the common „guild of the nine“ and established an independent table-makers' guild.

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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Coverage:

79-95 and 84-100

Source:

Český lid | 2003 Volume:90 | Number:1

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CDK

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