The Silent Companion Of Wineglass: Story Of Coaster
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The meaning of birth of coaster is the same as that of all famous inventions that emerge necessarily in the world.
In hot summer, a glass of ice beer that was just poured out from bottle few minutes ago is put on your desk. The glass is full with steam drops on surface and some ascending bubble might spill out. You are picking up the glass and going to cheers with friends, but the water drops are flowing off along surface of glass to your arm...
Or try to imagine you are keeping using napkins to clean the steam constantly appearing on ice glass for stopping the melted steam drops messing desk. After a while, there are many wasted napkins piled on your desk. At this time, if a handsome bartender give you a coaster, will you fell pleased that this coaster help you out from an awkward situation?
Have you ever thought about the story of coaster? Was it occasionally invented by a housewife who were living exquisitely? Or was it created from a thoughtful designer who was inspired to make a stuff to put the glass on it? However, they were both not the truth.
The story of coaster began from the bars. If back to the bars of the 19th century, you would find there were some pieces of felts or cloth. There were firstly used to cover on wine glasses to protect wine from be polluted by winged insects or dusty before they worked as the coasters. This kind of rough coasters performed good absorption of water. But it was unhealthful to reuse them much times.
When time came to approximate 1880, a German printing company named Friedrich Horn developed the first disposable rigid paper beer coaster. Several years later, a Germany called Robter Sputh dicovered the wood pulp-made beer coaster that was more durable. And this smart man applied for a patent for the creative coasters.
With the development of society and improvement of technology of coaster production, since the middle of 20th century, people increasingly used beer coasters in home or office but no longer limited in bars. DIY coasters with various kinds of materials became popular since that time.
