Molt (yarn)

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The molt was a piece of measure in yarn production and was derived from the so-called molt yarn (also mold (e) yarn or malt yarn ). The measure was widespread in the region around Paderborn , Minden , Osnabrück and Ravensberg , since this was the center of the production of these linen yarns of a certain quality and also yarn thickness .

In Minden the reel circumference was 2 cubits (Prussian).

  • 1 thread = 2 cubits (Prussian) = 1.3336 meters
  • 1 bundle = 50 threads
  • 1 piece = 20 bundles = 1000 threads = 2000 cubits (Prussian) = 1333.6 meters or: 16 bundles of 60 threads plus 1 bundle of 40 threads
  • 1 Molt = 12 pieces = 16,003.2 meters

This applies to the coarser types (the actual Moltgarn), for finer types:

  • 1 bunch = 20 pieces

hence also called bunch yarn .

Moltgarn was a looser web of Hede , hence also called Hedegarn , which was of inferior quality and could only be used as a weft thread . Molt yarn was wound into a rope using the so-called “long reel” or “Molthaspel” , which only appeared after 1846 and had 2 ½ Prussian cubits in the county of Ravensberg , the Molt 20,004 meters.

In contrast, the “short reel” or “small reel” in Ravensberg measured 2 Prussian yards and was only used for so-called full yarn made from long flax . The following applied:

  • 1 thread = 2 cubits (Prussian) = 1.3336 meters
  • 1 bind = 60 threads
  • 1 piece = 20 bundles = 1200 threads = 1600.32 meters, more rarely 1 piece = 24 bundles = 1440 threads = 1920.384 meters.
  • 1 bunch of full yarn = 20 pieces

The finest molt yarn (bundle yarn) was the so-called three- or four- hundred-pound yarn, if 300 molts (4800960 meters) weighed 3 to 4 hundredweight (around Nm 31 for 3 Prussian hundredweight and Nm 23 for 4 Prussian hundredweight). If it weighed over 4 quintals to 6 ½ quintals, it was classified as a medium-grade yarn (actual molt yarn). Around 1786, 100 Molt cost around 68–70 Reichstaler . The yarn was mainly sold to the Bergisches Land, Elberfeld and Holland.

In Osnabrückischen and Westphalia : also the following qualities were distinguished Schergarn or Löwentgarn for weaving Löwentleinen (. 1 piece = 1500 yarn to 4611 Hann Ellen, with 30 containers) and Kaufgarn or Langgarn . (1 piece 1200 yarn = 3541 ½ hannesther Ellen, with 24 containers, 1 bundle = 9 pieces).

Note : As a volume measure, Molt is only a regional name and means Malter .

literature

  • Eduard Schoneweg: The linen trade in the county of Ravensberg. A contribution to Low German folklore and antiquity. Reprint of the 1923 edition, Wenner Verl. Osnabrück 1985, ISBN 3-87898-293-3
  • Society of learned and practical merchants: General encyclopedia for merchants, manufacturers and businessmen, or complete dictionary. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1843, p. 207
  • Johann Georg Krünitz , Friedrich Jakob Floerken, Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth, Carl Otto Hoffmann, Ludwig Kossarski: Economic Encyclopedia. Volume 83, Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1801, p. 498
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden: The linen and yarn trade in Northern Germany. Publisher Helwing, 1838

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu : Handbook of coin, measure and weight and the exchange-government paper, banking and stock system of European and non-European countries and cities. J. Engelhorn Verlag, Stuttgart 1861, p. 293.
  2. ↑ a b c d Karl Karmarsch : Manual of mechanical technology. Volume 2. Verlag Helwing, 1858, p. 1163.
  3. ^ Eduard Schoneweg: The linen trade in the county of Ravensberg. A contribution to Low German folklore and antiquity. Reprint of the 1923 edition. Wenner Verlag, Osnabrück 1985, ISBN 3-87898-293-3 , p. 67.
  4. ^ A b Eduard Schoneweg: The linen trade in the county of Ravensberg. A contribution to Low German folklore and antiquity. Reprint of the 1923 edition. Wenner Verlag, Osnabrück 1985, ISBN 3-87898-293-3 , p. 69.
  5. ↑ Gottfried Christian Bohn, Gerhard Philipp Heinrich Norrmann: Gottfried Christian Bohns warehouse, or dictionary of products and goods. Volume 2. Verlag Carl Ernst Bohn, Hamburg 1806, p. 95.
  6. ↑ Gerhard Philipp Heinrich Norrmann : Geographical and historical handbook of country, ethnology and national studies: With constant consideration of physical properties, products, industry, action, etc. Volume 1. Verlag Hoffmann, 1786, p. 1178.
  7. ^ Johann Christian Schedel: New and complete ware lexicon [...]. Volume 2: Malt yarn or molding yarn. Weiß and Brede, Offenbach 1791, p. 17 .
  8. ^ Karl Karmarsch: Handbuch der mechanical Technologie, Volume 2. Verlag Helwing, 1858, pp. 1163–1164.