As the colony grew, and time passed, the arrival of craftspeople meant that residents did not have to rely on trade from Europe for their personal decoration needs.

By 1660 the following people were living in the colony:
Samuel the hatmaker
Albert Albertsen the ribbon weaver
Roeloff Jansen the lacemaker

 

 

Merchants flourished as well and inventories of their goods appear in their estate records. As just one example, consider John Winder. In 1678 his shop contained: a variety of dry goods, yards of every kind of fabric, ribbons and buttons by the gross, also combs; page after page of clothing, stockings and hoods, hats, caps, 34 payre gloves, necklaces, pendants; sewing things like thimbles, pins and needles, 43 lbs of brown thread, laces but no lace; some ready to wear items and some shoes.