Color makers

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The Nuremberg furrier Kunz Kälbermayr works on a Fehwammen feed (1483)

Buntmacher (also Buntwerker or Buntfutterer or Buntfoderer ) is an old German name for a furrier who mainly uses non-native skins. With the specialization that was common in the Middle Ages, there were often different groups of furriers in one city. The Hamburg color makers mainly processed foreign fur, the fur was reserved for the processing of local fur.

In Middle High German, the black-spotted fur on a white background with colored work was colorful , that is, the ermine fur and the fur of the squirrel, the feh . If one spoke of colored skins, colored work or colored gray, then the wrong skin was meant. The terms can still be found as Bontwerker in the Netherlands, buntmakare (also out of date, now Körsnär) in Sweden and Buntmaker in Denmark and Norway for the profession of furrier.

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  • Alexander Tuma: fur lexicon. Fur and rough goods. XVII. Tape. Verlag Alexander Tuma, Vienna 1949, pages 105-106
  • Paul Larisch : The furriers and their characters . Self-published, Berlin 1928, pp. 69–70