Bundle (thread size)

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Bund was a measure primarily in the Kingdom of Hanover and Braunschweig , but also in the neighboring regions and played a role in the trade in skeins of yarn.

Hanover

    • The reel circumference was 3 ⅛ cubits (Cologne) = 1.825 meters

A distinction was made between commercial and linen yarn.

  • Purchase yarn 1 bunch = 9 pieces
    • 1 piece = 24 bundles (50 threads each) = 1200 threads
  • Linen yarn
    • 1 bundle = 20 loops = 200 bundles = 18,000 threads = 67,500 cubits (hannov.)

Braunschweig

  • 1 bundle = 20 loops = 200 bundles

The work loop of house yarn had 1000 threads, the purchase loop 900 threads

Osnabrück and Westphalia

  • Shear yarn
    • The reel circumference was 3 ⅛ cubits (Cologne) = 1.825 meters
    • 1 piece = 30 bundles (50 threads each) = 1500 threads
  • Molten yarn
    • The reel circumference was 2 cubits (Cologne) = 1.168 meters
    • 1 piece = 20 bundles (50 threads each) = 16 bundles (60 threads each) + 40 threads = 1000 threads
    • Bunch yarn, a finer yarn 1 bunch = 20 pieces
    • Coarser yarn 1 Molt = 12 pieces
  • Full yarn
    • The reel circumference was 2 cubits (Cologne) = 1.168 meters
    • 1 bundle = 20 bundles
    • 1 piece = 20 bundles (60 threads each) = 1200 threads
    • 1 piece was also possible = 24 bundles (50 threads each)
  • Commercial and long yarn
    • The reel circumference was 2 cubits (Cologne) or 3 cubits = 1.168 meters
    • 1 bundle = 9 pieces = 216 bundles (50 threads each)

literature

  • F. Frank: Coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world traced back to German. Schulbuchverlag Langensalza 1856, p. 43
  • Max Wirth: Illustrated German commercial calendar 1869. Verlag Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar 1869, p. 147
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden: The linen and yarn trade in Northern Germany. Helwing 'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1838, p. 65 f.