Stave shell
A stave bowl , like a stave cup, is a vessel made of wooden staves , which is connected with birch or willow branches (or with wooden bands or metal hoops). Stave bowls were probably the most common type of simple drinking vessels and bowls in the Middle Ages .
Their production is similar to the coopers of a wooden bucket, in which a wooden vessel is made from several matched, rectangular to trapezoidal thin wooden plates and a round bottom using rods or ribbons. This seals itself with a sufficiently frequent use or watering through the swelling of the wood.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Schneider: Folk culture and everyday life. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007, Volume 1 (2001): From the beginnings to the outbreak of the Peasants' War. ISBN 3-8062-1465-4 , pp. 491-514 and 661-665, here: pp. 510 f. and Fig. 112 (“Stave Cup”).