Welcome to the Worshipful Company

 of Clothiers of Worcester. 

The Worshipful Company of Clothiers, Worcester, was one of the early medieval guilds formed to promote the interests of its members and to ensure the production of high quality cloth in the City of Worcester. The Ordinances of the guild, or fraternity, of weavers, which under Statute had to be submitted to the Justices of Assize for approval, is dated 5^th June in the 14^th year of the reign of King Henry VIII – 1522. The Ordinances refer to activity that is “ancient and laudable usage long time accustomed”. The Company was incorporated by Royal Charter granted by Queen Elizabeth 1 in 1590. 

The Clothiers' Company sits in the context of Worcester as an important 16^th century cloth town; in 1540, John Leland said "The wealth of Worcester standeth most by draping and no town of England at this present time maketh so many cloathes yearly as this town doeth”.