Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in crafts and trades]
7. [people in crafts and trades by material]

Anotations

Scope note:

People whose employment is staining, particularly those who color wood or other building or furniture materials with pigments that penetrate below the surface. Stainers belonged to special guilds in Europe from the Middle Ages onward. For those who apply pigment to cloth, use "dyers."