April 5th, 2009
ANSWERS!! Trivia-How much do you know about your industry? ANSWERS!
by JULIA
Image: © H. Armstrong Roberts What is a Cordwainer? –Heather Brady from Brown Shoe was correct when she said a shoemaker. “The English term cordwainer, meaning shoemaker, first appears in 1100. By the late 13th century a distinction grew in England between Cordwainers. proper, called alutari, who used only alum “tawed” cordwain, and another class of shoemakers called basanarii, who employed an inf…
