“Is not the fair fabric of Society itself, whereby, from nakedness and dismemberment, we are organized into Polities, into nations, and a whole co-operating Mankind, the creation of the Tailor alone?” In a population of 2,000 people, 18th century Williamsburg was home to perhaps 75 tailors, making it the most widely practiced trade in town. So likewise was cloth the largest import to the American colonies. Tailors made clothes for women and men, white and black, enslaved and free. Join our historic trades tailors in their well-stocked shop to learn about the people, designs, and techniques of their trade HERE.