Saddlers and Leather Workers: Horses and donkeys which were important means of transport were used in great numbers in and Safranbolu 46. For this reason saddle and harness making was a common field of production. The producers of saddles and harnesses were gathered in two separate streets in the carsi, called “semerciler ici” and “saraclar ici”, names denoting the crafts excersised within. It is known that in 1923 there were 120 people engaged in saddle-making.

There still are a few saddle-makers today .

Farriers
As each household owned at least one or two saddle-horses, there was a sufficient number of farriers engaged in horse-shoeing.