Tow , tow [1] - flax fiber , hemp or wool cleared of a fire , prepared for spinning.
A tow is obtained after the treatment of fibrous waste (a mixture of mixed fibers and bonfires ), which are formed by processing linen and hemp trusts into long fibers in bobbin machines. Waste treatment (making fires) is carried out on towing machines equipped with beater , scraper drums and a shaker.
Depending on the quality of the initial product, the tow is divided into first, second and third grades. Tow is widely used in the textile industry to obtain ( spin ) coarse thick yarn .
Content
- 1 Ritual value
- 2 Interesting
- 3 See also
- 4 notes
- 5 Literature
Ritual significance
Tow often refers to hair. At the eastern Slavs, the bride was made of tow at the wedding, the flax fibers were woven into the braids of the bride during the construction of the “woman’s” hairstyle; they used their hair to weave a mortal shroud, and a braid from a tow was tied to a grave cross (white). Tow, like flax, hemp in general, was called "hair of the earth."
Interesting
Previously, mountain tow (tow) , stone tow was called asbestos , hence the name Kudelka from some settlements where asbestos was mined [2] [3] [4] .
See also
- Bonfire
- Trust
- Tow
- Mountain flax
Notes
- ↑ Kudel // Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language : in 4 volumes / auth. V.I. Dahl . - 2nd ed. - SPb. : Printing house of M.O. Wolf , 1880-1882.
- ↑ Mountain tow , History of Nizhny Tagil from the foundation to the present day.
- ↑ Asbest - a special city. Archival copy of May 9, 2016 on Wayback Machine , the Official website of the city administration.
- ↑ Mineral asbestos , Information about the Sverdlovsk region - an experimental corporate project of regional libraries.
Literature
- Tow - an article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia . .
- Tow - an article from the Agricultural Dictionary.
- Kudel // Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language : in 4 volumes / auth. V.I. Dahl . - 2nd ed. - SPb. : Printing house of M.O. Wolf , 1880-1882.