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THE PIPE MAKER   The manufacture of pipes was down to one family, the Albanese family. The youngest of the family climbed up onto the high mountain slopes where the heather grew. Bunches of heather, with its pink bell-shaped flowers, were put together when they were dry to make brooms for the road and garden and little bundles to put in a row on the trellis to return the silkworms, which had been raised at home on mulberry leaves to the forest.  The silkworms, ready to go, climbed up by instinct and wove their precious cocoon between one stem and another.However, the real treasure of the heather was and is its tangled roots which are hard yet easy to work on the lathe.The pipes were exported all over Italy and even abroad. The most characteristic were the ones with the long, curved stem and supple bulb. Bibliography: Taken from “Acquasanta Terme ad Aquas” by Angela Latini and Antonio Rodilossi, designed and printed by EuroArte S.r.l. Stampa & Stampa Roma – Rimini – Milano division;