Tailor

Cutter or tailor is a craft apprenticeship in textile processing. The task of the cutter is to process textiles to clothing. The hand tools are the tailor since time immemorial needle, thread, scissors and iron, since the 19th century, increasingly, the sewing machine.

Vocational

As a training professional dressmakers between / in and Mr. Schneider / in distinguished, depending on which gender preference of clothing is made, the main difference is in the cut of the garments. In the 19th century average systems have been developed in the men's tailoring, which gave a precise fit and a proper fit, while the ladies tailoring preferred more " modeled " garments that worked with wrinkles, width and fabric coatings to achieve preferred " beautiful " effects. The dressmakers profession is relatively new and has established itself in the course of the 19th century as an independent craft; in older guild rules is the master test in addition to sewing and ironing samples required preparation of pants, screws, etc., the production of a "women's piece ".

Today, the major manufacturing activities of Schneider profession mostly of workers in low-wage countries in the production of ready-made "off the shelf ", so any non- individual outerwear, adopted ( eg China). The processing of materials into garments is limited to automate and remains labor intensive.

However, levels have creative professions, such as fashion tailors and fashion designers emerged from the cutter. Cropping is part of the training and role of the master tailor, in which he designs clothes, but the cuts calculated ( prepares ) and trims. In addition to the master, who was usually the owner of the farm, there were the fellows who sewed especially trained and ironed.

However, there are still, albeit to a much lesser extent, the tailor with his own studio, where the customer or the customer can be produced among other things a costume, a dress or a suit made ​​to measure. In addition to specific model or material desires of the tailors can respond individually to customers with differing from the standard sizes moderation.

Special Cutters

There are specialist leather cutter; the animal fur furrier call themselves.

A seamstress is concerned with embroidery and ornaments on white fabrics such as linen, table cloths or handkerchiefs, but also to women's lingerie.

Not responsible for the manufacture of the change is Schneider ( originally Flick Schneider), performs a training occupation since August 1, 2005 the name according to changes and repairs to finished Outerwear in Germany.

History

Until the 12th century, clothing was usually made by the family itself or in monasteries; therefore the profession of tailor came only to mid-12th century.

In France a distinction at this time the professions Schneider and Closer ( Nähknecht ). The French Schneider was not organized in contrast to the dress maker in a guild and therefore had less prestige and jobs. For this reason, the profession was often practiced by Jews, have access to the guilds was denied in France. This situation lasted until the abolition of the guilds in France after the French Revolution in 1789.

Because they were doing women's work according to the understanding of earlier times, Schneider had been exposed for centuries the people of ridicule. As demonstrated by many satirical traditions, the tailor was often the loser character. Even today is known among some card game that one a " cutter", who has previously achieved particularly few points.

The Nähknechte were often rather slight, sometimes physically disabled people who could not exercise physically heavy work. This contributed greatly to the bad image of the " cross-legged " cross-legged squatting on the table cutter. With the advent of the sewing machines from about 1830 ( see also Schneider Revolution), this auxiliary profession disappeared quickly, but survived at times still in Zuarbeiter the journeymen.

The oldest and longest strike craft history was the spell of tailor's apprentice from 1398, as this, in response to the closure of their tap room, for 10 years in their migrations the city of Konstanz avoided until the magistrate to journeymen allowed the tap-room again.

The tailor and his assistants, copper engraving by Daniel Chodowiecke 1774

Old Schneideröfchen numbered irons with interchangeable handles

Schneider Pattern Book, USA 1914