Loppers (Pruning Shears)
notes: label: Description
content: Vineyard workers at Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars in California’s Napa Valley used these long-handled pruning shears (loppers) for a variety of grapevine management tasks. Tending the vines is an essential part of viticulture practice and helps ensure a good crop, the foundation for good wine. Pruning the vines controls the size of the crop by balancing shoot growth and fruit production. It also helps maintain the shape of a vine, training it to adhere to the vineyard’s trellising system. Loppers are also used for cutting away growth when new vines are grafted in the field. While machines are often used on very large vineyard tracts, workers using hand tools take care of pruning and trimming year-round on the smaller estate vineyards in Napa.
topic: label: Subject
content: Wine
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content: Work and Industry: Food Technology
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content: FOOD: Transforming the American Table 1950-2000
label: Exhibition
content: Food: Transforming the American Table
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0181.24
label: accession number
content: 1998.0181
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0181.24
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shears, pruning - long handled
label: Object Name
content: shears
label: Other Terms
content: shears, pruning - long handled; Winemaking
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: manufactured (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.4 cm x 49.5 cm x 20 cm; 15/16 in x 19 1/2 in x 7 7/8 in