Tire turning

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The tire rotation is a craft skill that in Erzgebirge near Seiffen was developed and is still practiced there today. The result are small animals , other figures or replicas of houses made of wood, which are used as toys or to decorate Christmas pyramids or nativity scenes . Tire animals and figures are an integral part of the Erzgebirge folk art .

production

When turning a tire, a suitable piece of wood that is as crack-free as possible is machined on a special wooden lathe so that a wooden ring with a diameter of about 30 to 50 centimeters is created, which has the contour of the desired figure in cross section. Small segments are then split off from the ring. These are used as blanks and processed into the finished figures by carving and painting.

The technique of turning tires, which requires a great deal of experience and skill, emerged with the decline of tin mining around 1800 using the available water power. In the 19th century, it enabled the rational mass production of wooden figures, as it was faster and therefore cheaper than purely manual carving. At the present time, part of the exhibition at the Erzgebirge Toy Museum in Seiffen is dedicated to the tire turning trade, and there are also several demonstration workshops in the region around Seiffen.

  • The origins of the tire animals in the Ore Mountains Open Air Museum, July 2009

  • Tire turning workshop

  • A twisted deer-shaped hoop

  • Manufacturing steps

  • Processing of tire animals (Seiffen, 1929)

literature

  • Hellmut Bilz: Seiffen tire animals. Manufacturing, design and meaning. Series of publications by the Erzgebirge Toy Museum, Seiffen 1987
  • Hellmut Bilz: The tire turning trade in the Seiffen toy area. Series of publications by the Erzgebirge Toy Museum, Seiffen 1989

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