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The first time a Zunft appears in the historical record is in 1149 when the Zunft of 'the Bettdeckenweber, the bedcover weavers of Cologne, are mentioned. From there the Zunft spread east: the Innung oí the gold- and silversmiths in Brunswick dates to 1231, the oldest order of the butchers of Berlin to 1311. Furriers had their own Innung in Leipzig at least since 1335. By the middle Toggle bracelet the fifteenth century it was an integral part of the economic life of virtually every community in the Holy Roman Empire. Details of structure, organization, rights, or influence varied from city to city, but they all shared the same basic principles. As an association of members of a particular craft, Zünfte limited the number of masters who could open stores to limit competition. They set the number of journeymen and apprentices each one could employ.

They set standards of training, defined the methods of production, and set working hours as well as prices and modes of advertising and sale. Only members of a Zunft could gain full citizenship and thus Elsa Peretti Sevillana bracelet right to participate in the political life of a city. No one was permitted to practice his trade outside the Zunft, everyone within had to share in the social, cultural, and military obligations of the Zunft. A repeated breach of these rules could lead to expulsion from the craft. As part of the expulsion proceedings the golden earring worn by many craftsmen ( Elsa Peretti Sevillana Mesh bracelet was meant to pay for his funeral) was torn off his ear. The resulting slit in the earlobe showed the world that the man had been dishonest: the term Schlitzohr Ts still commonly used to denote an untrustworthy person.

Only honorable trades and crafts were allowed to organize - dishonorable crafts such as hangmen or Abdecker, that is, people who dealt with animal cadavers, were neither allowed in a Zunft nor permitted to form their own. Occasionally an un-honorable craft could become honorable: for example, at the Imperial Diet in Augsburg in 1548, barber-surgeons, people who pulled teeth, Frank Gehry Fish toggle bracelet patients, and dressed small wounds, were declared "honorable" and received the right to organize in a Zunft. The other important group excluded from this system was the Jews who, since the late fourteenth century, were no longer permitted to live in most cities and who were frequently, by law, also denied the right to own land. A Zunft was for all practical purposes also a male organization: few women were admitted to a Zunft.