Tailors guild

[kinsey5156]

Does anyone know if there are  any links/websites to trace the occupation of Tailors. I have generations  of Tailors in my family who supposedly belonged to a special guild but I cannot find anything for Tailors.
Any help appreciated.

[Mowsehowse]

For "Merchant Taylors Guild" this might help:

http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=14196&inst_id=118

[kinsey5156]

Thank you.

[ShaunJ]

I'm not sure that the Merchant Taylors company is what you are looking for.

 "The last working tailors in the Company are believed to have been at the end of the 17th century"

http://www.merchant-taylors.co.uk/home/about-the-company/

[kinsey5156]

Ok thanks.

[Skoosh]

Tailor's in Scotland had to join the Trade Incorporation before setting up shop in a particular burgh & they had to become a burgess first!

Skoosh.

[Ratty2]

I'm looking for helpful article or study of Tailors in Birmingham, even in the earliest days of Industrial Revolution. I.e. 1730-1790.
Plenty of writers discuss London as if it were the whole of England, there must be something somewhere that discusses Provincial tailors.
The Withers family made a reasonable fortune there at that time. Without,  it seems, the Dickensian habits of mid-Victorian London.
Any clues?
Many thanks

[Mowsehowse]

Have you seen this?
https://www.wcml.org.uk/our-collections/working-lives/tailors/

And wiki "History of Birmingham" cites this book, which may (or not) be helpful.
Hopkins, Eric (1989), Birmingham: The First Manufacturing Town in the World, 1760–1840, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN 978-0-297-79473-8

[Ratty2]

Cheers. I'll check it out.