Men worked as tailors, masons, wheelwrights, shoemakers, mechanics, blacksmiths, carpenters, tanners, and butchers. Tanners, boot and shoemakers, glovers and saddlers were all in business in Newton Abbot. Oak bark is also rich in tannin, and is used by tanners for tanning leather. Occupational castes included blacksmiths, jewellers, tanners, tailors, musicians and "griots". Historically, it was the poor quarter of the city, where butchers, tanners and dyers gathered. Indeed, Nantua has long been a town of tanners and shoemakers. This setting was conducive to millers, tanners, potters, smiths and other artisans. Similar observations hold for carpenters, tanners, weavers and others. The city's goldsmiths, silversmiths, and leather tanners began to export their Hyderabadi wares abroad. There were fifteen tailors, seven smiths, four carpenters, twelve camel-drivers and fifteen tanners. Leathers are obtained from different tanners in France, resulting in varying smells and textures. Only tanners and glove makers were able to survive into the 20th century. The temple usually kept the skin to sell to tanners. The Bristle-Makers Union and Tanners Union had committee status. Other speciality tanners and leather products manufacturers were also established in the town.