The different industries consisted of various clockmakers, cabinetmakers, artistic painters, and gilders. He employed in his workshop numerous specialist carvers and gilders. Like Stoss' other large works, it required a large workshop including specialized painters and gilders. The gilders of the nave were the brothers Iordanou. The purchasers were Messrs Barton and Gilders. Barbara Sue Gilders (later "Dudeck", born July 23, 1937) is a retired American diver. Gilders married John Dudeck, a former swimmer for Michigan State University.