I used some of the old tobacco sticks and made a cute star to hang on my door for Christmas.
For those of you that don't know what a tobacco stick is. It is actual sticks that are sharpened to a point on each end. They were used when growing fields of tobacco. And after the cutting of the tobacco in the fields, the sticks (along with spears on the ends) would be shoved through the stalks of the tobacco, one by one, until the sticks were full of tobacco, and then that is how the tobacco was hung in the barns to cure.
Anyways, I cut the ends of each stick (because they are pretty long) and shortened them to make a small enough star for my door. Added a handmade bow and glued on some gold beads and here you have it.
I think it will make for an interesting welcome. lol
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1 comments:
Hi LOVE this, but in Eastern North Carolina, tobacco sticks are totally different than you described. They are squared on the ends (unless it's a grading stick) and bundles of tobacco are hung on the sticks with loops of twine. (tobacco twine that is!) Then the sticks are hung on rafters in a heated barn to cure. The sticks are used over and over again.
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