Object number
90/22
Description
This is a ball of sisal string enclosed in brown paper. Also it has the inscription: 'RED STAR NO. 0 BALER AND BINDER TWINE' with the instructions for use. This twine came from the farm of the donor's brother-in-law.
Physical description
1 roll of binder twine: good condition
Label Text
Binder twine. This is a ball of sisal baler twine. Originally hay was stored loose in farmers' barns which took up valuable space. Hay balers were developed in the late 1800s, to compress cut crops into compact bales that were easy to handle, transport, and store. Bales have been bound with twine, strapping, netting, or wire. An automatic knotting mechanism for twine was developed during the 1860s. When coupled with cheap sisal twine from Mexico in the 1880s, twine tying binders quickly took over from the wire tying variety. Sisal twine itself was largely replaced by polypropylene twine in the 1960s.
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- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_15685.tif - High resolution image
