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In England clay pipes were sold in bundles of dozens or twenties, and were often free in taverns, where the tobacco was sold. They were made out of a ball clay. Forming the pipe involved making them in moulds with the bore created by pushing an oiled wire inside the stem. The preferred material was pipeclay or "tobacco pipe clay", which fires ...
The Frank Method is a method for packing tobacco into a smoking pipe initially developed by Achim Frank for use in pipe smoking competitions.. The Frank method involves compacting the tobacco from the sides without compressing the top.
A pipe tool is a small gadget designed to aid in packing, smoking, and emptying a tobacco pipe. There are three principal pipe tools: the tamper, the reamer, and the pick: [ 1 ] The tamper is a blunt instrument, either a simple dowel or shaped like the head of a nail.
This pipe has a permanent mouthpiece and no spur. The bowl of the ‘umbhekaphesheya’ pipe points away from the stem at an angle of 45 degrees, hence the reference to pointing at the sea as the pipes opening is directed towards the sea and its alternative design is influenced by Europeans who travelled across the ocean to reach Africa.
The exterior surface of the bowl of some pipes may be fashioned with some kind of design. The character Leopold Bloom, in James Joyce's Ulysses carries a tobacco pipe with the bowl carved into a head: "He carries a silverstringed inlaid dulcimer and a longstemmed bamboo Jacob's pipe, its clay bowl fashioned as a female head." [1]
Hookah, tall stemmed pipe in which the smoke is cooled and filtered by passing through water, also known as a water pipe; Kiseru, Japanese pipe traditionally used for smoking finely shredded tobacco; Love rose, a pipe for smoking crack cocaine; Midwakh, small smoking pipe of Arabian origin; Pizzo (pipe), a pipe designed for freebasing drugs
The kō-bon, an incense tray, became the tabako-bon, a tobacco tray. The kōro, an incense burner, became the hi-ire, a tobacco embers pot. The incense pot became the hai-otoshi or hai-fuki, a jar to contain the ash. During the Edo period, many samurai and chōnin smoked tobacco, and often carried a kiseru in a special case called a kiseruzutsu.
The history of the pipe style is traced to the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. [1] Some churchwarden pipes can be as long as 16 inches (40 cm). In German the style is referred to as "Lesepfeife" or "reading pipe", presumably because the longer stem allowed an unimpeded view of one's book, and smoke does not form near the reader's ...