cordwainer

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Traditionally, cordwainers made each pair of shoes by hand for a specific customer.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Shipmasters, bakers and cordwainers alike found the money to build solid and beautiful homes that are still much in demand today.

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2014

Soon the "cordwainers" of New Canaan became nationally known for their fine products, and sold largely to the southern trade� even to New Orleans.

From Time Magazine Archive

As early as 1806 it was contended for by the Philadelphia cordwainers and by 1860 it had become an established union policy.

From The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners by Orth, Samuel Peter

It is all most informing; for instance, in the trades that might want work were it not for leather are named not only "shoemakers, cordwainers, curriers, etc.," but many now obsolete.

From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Earle, Alice Morse