jan 1, 1565 - stainer

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In York the stainers were probably working with cloth rather than with wood. Inventories provide occasional information: in 1565 the Earl of Lennox had property at Temple Newsam which included <i>two benkers stayned with armes; </i>that is two coverings for a bench or chair which had his coat of arms ‘stained’ on them, perhaps to resemble tapestry. Similar items were <i>imbrodered</i> or had <i>crewlez nedle worke</i> (YAJ25/95). There were stainers in the city from the mid-fourteenth century, for <i>Willelmus le steignour</i> was enrolled as a York freeman in 1353 (SS96/49). The <i>stenours</i> were a small group, linked with <i>peyntourz, </i>and<i> goldbetours</i> in the fifteenth century (SS120/164-6) and, in 1421-2, belonged to the guild of <i>Payntours, Steynours, Pynners et Latoners. </i>There were just six members of the<i> steynourcrafte </i>on that occasion (SS125/102-3) but the numbers increased in the 1440s and 1450s by which time the by-name was in the process of becoming hereditary: 1443 <i>Hugo Stenyour, stenyour, fil. Ricardi Stenyour</i> (SS96/162). Subsequently the craft declined and it may have been absorbed into the painters’ guild: 1491 <i>Thomas Gynderscale, payntour alias stenour</i> (SS96/216).

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