Tobacco bandelier
A tobacco bandolier is a string on which tobacco leaves are strung together to dry in the air in tobacco drying sheds .
In Germany, drying takes place with the aid of the air that flows past the leaves and removes the moisture.
The sheets are lined up on a bandolier with sufficient space between them. A large needle is used to thread the tobacco leaves onto the bandolier. About 12 to 15 leaves hang on a finished bandolier. The ends of the bandelier are each tied into a loop.
In the tobacco shed there are thin wooden poles with nails, the so-called frame legs. Their vertical and horizontal distance from each other is about 90 cm. A bandolier is hung between two adjacent frame legs by attaching the two loops to the nails. The length of the bandolier is measured so that it sags slightly between the frame legs and two loops can be formed at the two ends. The thickness is about 1.5 mm, a so-called "Baden line" is 3 mm. The length of a bandelier is just over a meter.
The bandeliere consisted of hemp fibers well into the 20th century . The yarn was made by the farmer himself, but was also available from rope makers and merchants under the name of "tobacco yarn".
Individual evidence
- ^ Babo, August Wilhelm von ; Hoffacker, F., Tobacco and its cultivation, together with an appendix on the culture and treatment of tobacco in Holland by Oekonom Ph. Schwab, Verlag der Herder'schen Buchhandlung, Karlsruhe 1852, p. 113