Tailoring

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Tailoring with yardstick

The Schneiderelle or Tuchelle is a traditional hand tool of the tailor to measure lengths of cloth.

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The tailor's head consists of a square or three-edged, often turned, round wooden stick , usually with a handle on one side. Originally, it is a cubit long, a little over half a meter. Usually it is divided by markings.

Today's tailors, which are still used in the fabric trade , have a length of 50 cm or 100 cm and an embossed, calibrated scale . Tailors from the end of the 19th century often have two scales with the old cubit and the metric graduation introduced in 1871 .

Figurative meanings

Wilhelm Busch: "He jumps quickly with the yardstick / over his house threshold"

Along with needle and thread, the cubit is an attribute of the tailoring trade ("instead of the sword, give him the tailor's job") and, through its artistic representations, has numerous figurative, often joking meanings. It can be a sign of pettiness ("they put their tailoring on the mighty spirit") or a skinny person ("you tailor, you rapier case, you pathetic rapier "). It is often depicted as an instrument of punishment (Schneider Böck in Wilhelm Busch's Max und Moritz : "He jumps quickly with the yardstick / over his house threshold" or in the fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm Tischlein, deck dich!, Where the father's supposedly deceptive sons " be chased away with the yardstick).

Measuring standards

Iron cubits at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna

In many places there are still measuring standards that were once officially used to calibrate tailors , which differed from town to town and often also depending on the material being measured. Most of these are iron bars attached to the public, for example on church walls. To the left of the main gate of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna , for example, measurements of a cloth and a linen cord can be seen. The Wiener Tuchelle measured about 0.78 meters. The local differences in dimensioning were considerable. The Italian Tuchellen Braccio da panno, however, were between 0.63 meters and 0.69 meters long.

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  1. ↑ Karl Leberecht Immermann : The eye of love. A comedy, Hamm: Schulz and Wundermann 1824, IV / 1, p. 86
  2. ^ Leonhard Schneider: The immortality idea in faith and in the philosophy of the peoples , Regensburg: Coppenrath 1870, p. 13
  3. ↑ Shakespeare , Heinrich IV. (Drama) , I / 2,4 quoted from Brothers Grimm , German Dictionary