Pottery and guilds

Individual home crafts were established where there were natural conditions for it; pottery wherever loamy and sandy soil impoverished crop yields. Where the domestic agrarian economy was able to link the production of raw materials with domestic crafts (cooperage, shoemaking, leather trade, tailoring, strap making, milling, wheelwright's trade), the craft specialized as a house tradition in some selected families and craftsmen grouped into guilds.

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