Rafailović, Jelena (2025) "Black Drop of Tar, a Hundred Drops of Cloudy Sweat": The Production, Trade, and Use of Wood Tar in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia During the Interwar Period. Acta Scientiarum Polonorum Silvarum Colendarum Ratio et Industria Lignaria. Acta Forestry, 24 (2). pp. 249-257. ISSN 1644-0722

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Abstract

This paper examines the use of wood tar in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, focusing on its production, trade, and everyday applications. It highlights both industrial dry distillation and traditional methods, with particular attention to the latter. Drawing on historical sources such as newspapers records and ethnographic accounts as well as relevant scholarly literature, the study reconstructs the traditional tar production process in detail, the ways tar was distributed and used in daily life. The methodological approach combined qualitative content analysis of written sources with a comparative review of previous research, enabling the identification of both local specificities and broader regional patterns.

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