tinsmiths

Many non-Travellers refer to the group as 'Itinerants' which means "people who travel from place to place" or 'tinkers' which originally meant "tinsmiths"; however, the latter term is considered derogatory.

Latest Articles 2010

Ferbos was born in New Orleans' Treme neighborhood in 1911, the son of Creole tinsmiths.

As old as jazz itself, Lionel Ferbos keeps on jammin' 2011

The dusty streets were wide and unpaved … lined with low one-story buildings of brick or earth, little shops and industries, blacksmiths and tinsmiths, bakeries and hot-water shops, dry-goods and sweetmeat shops, all the life of a people confined geographically and therefore mentally and spiritually to an old and remote area.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

And their tradition as “tinkers” or tinsmiths goes back hundreds of years.

Hidden World of Girls: Turn on your radios now! « Gender Across Borders 2010

The dusty streets were wide and unpaved … lined with low one-story buildings of brick or earth, little shops and industries, blacksmiths and tinsmiths, bakeries and hot-water shops, dry-goods and sweetmeat shops, all the life of a people confined geographically and therefore mentally and spiritually to an old and remote area.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

BARTLET [VO] “Tonight, what began on the commons in Concord, Massachusetts, as an alliance of farmers and workers, of cobbles man and tinsmiths, of statesmen and students, of mothers and wives, of men and boys, lives two centuries later as America!”

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We have seen examples where local carpenters, tinsmiths, leatherworkers or blacksmiths have put together simple crutches, carts, wooden legs and other aids.

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But if each group of artisans paid a hundred golds ... there were weavers, potters, coopers, basket makers, woodworkers, fullers, apothecaries, jewelers, coppersmiths, and tinsmiths and all sorts of other smiths ...

Colors of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1999

"Take a month to journey through the taiga forest in the dead of winter and knock on the gates pretending to be wandering tinsmiths?"

The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988

Then up they went through the narrow dingy streets with their overhanging houses that made a pleasant shade, past the quarters of the tinsmiths and the jewelers, the tailors and the sandal-makers.

Christmas Light Ethel Calvert Phillips