Kwo Handcrafted Wooden Smokers

Smoking men or "Rauchermaenner" are handcrafted wooden incense burners that date back many years ago. The Erzgebirge region of Germany (the Ore Mountains) was popular for its mining of ore, gold, and other minerals. The men that worked in these mines also had knowledge of how to work with wood since they made wood containers, water wheels and other wood items used in mining. In order to provide more for their families many of the miners, after working the mines all day, had already begun to carve figures out of wood. As time went on and the mining industry diminished many of the miners turned primarily to woodcarving as their major source of income. The ides of burning incense dates back even further than the smoking men themselves. Incense was burned as a way of blessing the home. Today, incense along with these smoking men give the home a nice comfortable cozy feeling.

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