Turkish Pipe Encyclopedia Index

The shared name for small-leaved, sun-cured tobacco varieties with high aroma. Considered the core flavoring tobacco of English and Balkan pipe blends.

An American institution founded in 1996 by Jorge Armenteros, offering online education and certification in tobacco retailing and product knowledge.

Sot weed was a disparaging name attached to the tobacco plant; little ladell was a description of the implement's shape used before the word "pipe" took hold. Both remain confined to 16th-18th century texts.

New York's jewelry and silver house Tiffany & Company sold, for many years, cases, lighters, amber mouthpieces, and even a handful of pipes under the heading of what it called "fancy goods." Trademark records and collection catalogs make it possible to trace this small line.

How small cardboard cards inserted into cigarette packs as stiffeners turned into collectible objects, and the place of pipe-themed series within these sets.

A small one-man American workshop run by Eric Weaver in the town of Washburn, Wisconsin, producing a few dozen pipes a year.

The two-stage process that gives pipe tobacco its taste and scent: casing, which works deep into the leaf, and topping, applied to the surface just before packaging.