Play of ball

The play of ball is a Jeu very running in the school S. the most traditional way to play there consists in launching its ball on that of the adversary in order to obtain it. The Collection and it search for rare balls play a big role in the play.

Rules

There exists much in ways of playing balls. The goal of the play can be to launch its balls in a hole or to launch them on other balls.

The rules of the game of balls are transmitted orally, and belong to the childish Culture.

Types of balls

The balls to be played are spheres which can be different sizes (of 1,5 cm to 7 cm in diameter). They bear different names, function of their size: smaller with largest, one mini a: , normal , “bolts” (or let us berlons ), “maximum bolts” , boulard , “maximum boulard” , mini stone-block , stone-block (or sometimes galot ), maximum stone-block , mammoth , eagle

The traditional balls are made of glass more or less dyed, decorated in their center by one or more coloured bands which one sees by transparency. Certain balls are made of multicoloured glass, more or less opaque, being able to go until the appearance of the Porcelaine. Others, which start to take more value, are done of Terra cotta varnished.

According to their decoration and of their conformation, they often bear a name: the cats eye , the agate , the barouleau , the porcelain , the tornado , the egg (which with the one of the greatest values), the pépitée , the ground , the frosted , the blue neptune , the red neptune , the canary , ASM , the galaxy , the spider , the tiger , the lion , the gasoline , the copper , the black hole , the blue sea , bubble of water …

The balls punts are called “Chinese balls” : they are presented in fact like a kind of Palet.

History

The origin of the play of ball remains unknown. The first known appearance seems to go up with the ancient Greece where one practiced the troppa ; the goal of the play was to launch a maximum of small round objects in a hole. Pareillement, the Romans played orca , play where it was necessary to launch Noix or Noisette S in a vase.

The oldest ball could have 6000 years, it is with the museum of Oxford.

Between the the Middle Ages and the Rebirth, the ball, which was hitherto an ecological object, becomes an artisanal object. Certain Venetian Masters Verrier S would have indeed produced balls at the 14th century. In Wood or Metal, of form coarsely spherical, they are then called gobilles. However, in spite of this progressive evolution of the ball, it is only at the 15th century that the plays are organized and that the rules are set up, in an oral way.

The 18th century, Age of Enlightenment and of Encyclopédistes, sees developing an interest growing for the plays and the toys, as well as a new design of education with Rousseau. One also assists with the stammerings of the Industrial revolution. Consecutively with these changes, the balls swell perfectly. The materials of manufacture, as for them, multiply; first of all out of ground, the ball can also be of glass, stone, agate, marble, etc

Other sources support that the set of balls comes owing to the fact that the young Japanese started to withdraw the balls of the bottles of Ramune (made up of the system " Codd-neck ") after their introduction in 1876 can.

Ground balls

Created in 1876 in the Drome by Alexandre Barral, the family company started by manufacturing stone balls, before launching out towards 1930 in the production of ground balls. Vis-a-vis the competition of the balls out of glass of Asian or American origin, Barral are constrained to close the factory in 1984. Of 1985 with 1998, the ball is present in the area only via the museum which is dedicated to him. In 1998, Mr Desbois starts again the production of ground balls. The company Balls and Traditions, last machines production of ground balls, thus makes it possible to join again with the tradition.le museum of the ball is exploited by the Guilhot family to which belongs the factory balls

See too

the blue ball, a photograph celebrates representing the Ground like a ball.

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