Who was responsible for making siege weapons for the Crusades? And how did they do it?

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For whatever siege weaponry was used, I'm assuming it was complicated enough that an individual couldn't have just "brought it from home". So who was responsible for creating these weapons? And did they work from a set of standard "blueprints", or was each piece custom-made?

J-Force

I recently wrote an answer about trebuchets which touches on the topic of crusades which may answer some of these questions.