Patron Saint: of Coopers & Barrel Makers

Traditionally, a cooper is someone who makes wooden staved vessels, bound together with hoops and possessing flat ends or heads. Examples of a cooper’s work include but are not limited to casks, barrels, buckets, tubs, butter churns, hogsheads, firkins, tierces, rundlets, puncheons, pipes, tuns, butts, pins and breakers. Wheel wrights used similar methods in making wheel hubs and steel tires. (…) Today, coopers mostly operate barrel-making machinery and assemble casks for the wine and spirits industry. (Source)