Tape rupture
The tape tearing is a traditional craft, in which wood of willow tires for the coating of wooden barrels were prepared. The Bandreißer ( Low German Bannmoker) were mainly active on the Lower Elbe , where they also cultivated the basket willows that they needed to produce the barrel hoops .
After knocking off the pastures and the white of the rods (peeling - even sticks Basten called - and washing) processed the band thriller workshops pastures to the finished product, the willow tires. The willow branches had to be split lengthways. The willow tires were needed for the production of barrels, especially butter barrels . For example, butter churns were not allowed to be encased in metal hoops because rust would later turn the butter into rancid. Up until the 18th century, the cooper produced the wooden barrel hoops for wrapping their barrels themselves. But as early as the 17th century, individual coopers began to specialize in tire production and became tape breakers - named after the tape that is created by tearing (splitting) rods from the willow but also hazel, oak, etc. The band breakers made wooden barrel hoops for the cooperage, which were delivered in various lengths and bent into rings. The staves (the side boards of the barrel) need support; therefore ribbons are needed to enclose the barrel like a banderole around a cigar.
The profession is only carried out by a few people. Occasionally the skill is still needed to make topping-out and Advent wreaths.
The hoop cutters also made barrel hoops, but used hazelnut bushes for this .
The community of Hetlingen is known as a band rider village in the Haseldorfer Marsch .
Workplace of a tape breaker
Pasted (white) and unbasted (dark) willow sticks
Finished barrel hoops
