Shock (thread size)
Schock was an Ermländer and measured Silesian yarn .
When the yarn was wound onto a counting reel , a regionally different number of threads was tied or tied to a bundle (hence the name "bundle"). Finally, a certain amount of bundle forms the finished strand of yarn . A thread or draden was measured by one full turn of a reel. The thread length was therefore dependent on the circumference of the reel, which in turn was also determined by the material of the yarn to be measured.
There were deviations in hemp and hedge yarn from Poland and so was the case
- 1 shock = 4 pieces = 48 containers
- 1 bundle = 20 cubits.
Was in Breslau
- 1 thread = 4 cubits = 2.30446 meters
- 1 bundle = 20 threads
- 1 zaspel = 20 bundles
- 1 strand = 3 braids
- 1 piece = 4 strand
- 1 shock = 60 pieces
literature
- Gustav Wagner, Friedrich Anton Strackerjan: Compendium of the coin, measure, weight and exchange rate relationships of all states and trading cities on earth. B. G. Teubner, Leipzig 1855, pp. 141, 144.