These were copper and goldsmith trade. The households also bred silkworms. The four manufactures produced silk that was exported to Tsarigrad and Italy. Viticulture was also typical for this place. The best vineyards were situated around the Balak fountain (Balakova cheshma), Orelcheto, Kamaka, Chukata. The stock-breeders from Arbanassi were famous and looked for in the whole vast empire. Many of them sold even in Baghdad, India, and Persia. They sold meat, fat, hide, and other things and when they came back they brought silk, velvet, spices, herbs, etc. which they sold not only in Arbanassi but also in Turnovo, Gorna Oriahovitsa, Popovo, etc.
The five churches and the houses built in the years of prosperity are proof of the economical prosperity and welfare in Arbanassi. In the end of XVIII c. as a result of the kurjalii invasions in 1792, 1798, 1810 the village was plundered and set on fire and the epidemic of plague and cholera put an end to what remained from the robbers and fire. The richest traders moved in Wallachia and Russia.
After 1810 a new settlement started in Arbanassi. These people were Bulgarians from the mountains near Elena and Triavna . But it could not reach the past prosperity and economic climax, and more, with the hattisherif from Gulhan from 1839 its authorities were taken. The development of the small occupations after the Crimean war here almost stops.