The images here demonstrate how barrels were made in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Some extant examples of medieval barrels: a medieval barrel from Paul Street, Exeter (detail of hazel hoops), and a barrel used to line a medieval well in York.

See also "The cask age: the technology and history of wooden barrels" by Diana Twede, Packaging Technology and Science (vol. 18, issue 5, June 2005).

• A cooper, The Noah Window at Chartres Cathedral, c. 1205-1215
• A wheelwright and a cooper, The Julian the Hospitaller Window at Chartres Cathedral, c. 1215-1225
• Coopers in the Mendel Hausbuch: Niclas Pütner (c. 1425), Albrecht Pütner (c. 1425), a cooper (1478), Hanns Gebenpach (1485), Vlrich Putner (1515), Clas Speyman (1537), Hanß Bischoff (1565), Steffan Fick (1574), Veit Rost (1600)
• August, Hours of Adelaide of Savoy (Musée Condée 76, fol. 8v), c. 1460-1465
• August (fol. 9v) and October (fol. 11v), Hours of Infante Don Alfonso of Castile (PML M.854), c. 1465-1480
• August, the Hours of Laudomia de' Medici (Yates Thompson 30, fol. 9), c. 1502
• Fritz Praisßlinger (1518), The Landauer Hausbuch
• A misericord in a choirstall at St. Catherine's Church in Hoogstraten by Albrecht Gelmers, c. 1532-1548
• The Cooper, Das Ständebuch, 1568
• Labors of the Months: April, c. 1580
• Sebastian Locker (c. 1604), The Landauer Hausbuch