In these Flemish cities the early oligarchic form of municipal government speedily gave way to a democratic. The great mass of the townsmen organized in trade gilds - weavers, fullers, dyers, smiths, leather-workers, brewers, butchers, bakers and others, of which by far the most powerful was that of the weavers - as soon as they became conscious of their strength rebelled against the exclusive privileges of the patricians and succeeded in ousting them from power. [Please select]
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They were weavers, workers in metal, stone-cutters, masons, potters, carpenters, upholsterers, tailors, shoe-makers, glass-blowers, boat-builders, wig-makers, and embalmers. [Please select]
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And he caused large sums of money to be given to both the weavers in order that they might begin their work directly. [Please select]
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The prices offered, and the difficulties the weavers were having to get material enough, were common talk at every English cottage fireside. [Please select]
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"As I said before, the spinners and weavers were a crazy, jealous lot." [Please select]
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These workmen trained other weavers, and in the meantime more and more eggs were hatched. [Please select]
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Hundreds of skilled artisans--carpenters, smiths, and weavers--utterly disappeared as if swallowed up by death. [Please select]
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Smiths, hatters, weavers, wagon-makers, and potters at neighboring towns supplied him with the rough products of their native skill. [Please select]
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The Flemish weavers had arisen, and a mercantile class had clamored for new privileges. [Please select]
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In Spain, for example, Velasquez painted court-dwarfs and the weavers of the royal tapestry-factories, and all sorts of persons and subjects connected with the king and his court. [Please select]
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The work of Arab potters and weavers was at once the admiration and despair of its imitators in western Europe. [Please select]
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