Timberwright's Guild

The Timberwrights’ Guild has a monopoly on commercial logging. Timber rights are held by landowners, who are free to cut timber for their own or vassals’ use, but only timberwrights may sell timber for profit. Timberwrights obtain licences from the landowner for stumpage fees, averaging 10% of the selling price. It is generally a serious offense to cut trees without such licence. Some timberwrights obtain lumber from wilderness areas, but this involves higher transportation and security costs. Most timberwrights operate a sawmill, where logs (timber) are sawn by hand into planks (lumber) of various dimensions. Timberwrights’ main customers are woodcrafters, shipwrights, masons, and charcoalers. Miners have the right to cut their own timber but often employ bonded timberwrights for their expertise

Type

Guild, Merchant