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R.EM. – Ex maceratoio di Megliadino San Vitale Traditional Cache

Hidden : 6/17/2014
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[ITA] La cache è di dimensioni small.

[ENG] The cache has small dimension. 


[ITA] R.EM. - EX MACERATOIO DI MEGLIADINO SAN VITALE

Tra le maggiori fonti di reddito per le famiglie di queste zone vi era la coltivazione della canapa, introdotta nel Montagnanese e nel Colognese a partire dal periodo veneziano, grazie alla ricchezza di acque nel nostro territorio e rimasta in uso fino all’immediato secondo dopoguerra.

Per ottenere il filamento, una volta tagliata, la canapa veniva riunita in fasci e messa a macerare nell’acqua derivata dai corsi fluviali in appositi spazi detti appunto maceratoi.

Una volta trasportata a casa con i carretti e asciugata, la canapa veniva percossa per mettere a nudo la fibra contenuta nella corteccia.

Veniva quindi passata nella “gramola” e poi pettinata con il “cardatore”, fino a ottenere un filato morbido che, unito in un filo continuo con la rocca e il fuso, era, infine, tessuto per fare lenzuola e altro vestiario, mentre dalla parte più grezza si ricavavano le corde per le navi della Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia o per il traino.

Nell’ex maceratoio di via Gioachin a Megliadino San Vitale, troviamo i resti e le testimonianze di quest’antico mestiere, immersi in una campagna intatta e a pochi metri da un'altra importante testimonianza del lavoro dell’uomo, la storica idrovora Vampadore.

L’area del maceratoio oggi è meta ideale per pic-nic all’aperto e tappa imperdibile lungo l’itinerario “Anello delle Città Murate”.

 

 

[ENG] R.EM - THE EX MEGLIADINO SAN VITALE’S RETTERY

The hemp farming was one of the most relevant sources of income for the families that lived in this area: it was introduced in the territories of Montagnana and Cologna during the Venetian rule, thanks to the abundance of water in these areas, and it has regularly been used until the post-World War II period. Once it was cut, the hemp was bundled together and it was made ret in the rivers’ water, in proper places called retteries, in order to get the filaments.

As it was carried home in the wheelbarrows and it was dried up, the hemp was beaten to uncover the fiber inside the bark.

The hemp was treated using the “gramola” (the hemp-brake machine used to separate the textile and the woody fibers) and then it was hackled in the “teaser” (the machine used to untangle and make parallel the textile fibers), until they got a soft spun that, combined into an unbroken yarn using the distaff and the spindle, was weaved to make sheets and clothes, whereas ropes for the Serenissima Republic of Venice’s ships or for the haulage were obtained by the rawest part of the hemp.

In the ex Megliadino San Vitale’s Rettery in Gioachin Street, we find the ruins and the evidence of this ancient trade: we are plunged into an untouched countryside, just a few metres far from another important evidence of the man’s trade, the historical water pump Vampadore.

Nowadays the rettery’s area is the ideal place for a pic-nic; furthermore it is an unmissable stop along the itinerary called “The Wall Towns’ Ring Itinerary”.

 

Se vi interessa leggere e scoprire di più sul mondo della Canapa vi invitiamo a leggere questo interessantissimo libretto: http://aiigveneto.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/carlo_canapa.pdf

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