Darts and Dartboards

There are many dart players around the world, some are perfect players others are not and I am among the NOT. I remember trying my luck and I had to start the game with a double by the time I finally hit the double, the game was over.. I admire the players and the game, but my excuse is maybe because I am left handed. Will that suffice? Grin. It was the same when I bowled, I seem to prefer the gutter ball. You only had to say Gutter and voila, I obliged them and threw the ball in the gutter.

Now getting back to Darts and Dartboards, have you ever been interested in the history of darts and dartboards? Well it is believed that the first dart game originated with soldiers throwing short arrows at the bottom of a tree trunk. When the wood dried cracks happened creating sections. Later many woodworkers started making dartboards for local pubs. Traditionally dartboards used to be made of wood ,usually popular or elm. Both were easier for the darts to stick on. The first ones were cut from the end of a tree trunk and believed that the circular pattern of the rings and the way the wood cracked led to the design of the dartboard. By the late 1920s a standardised dartboard was introduced and remains the most popular dartboard today across the world. In 1930 a London company filed a patent for a new kind of dartboard. Made of biscuits of sisal fibre the dartboard was way better than the wooden one. This dartboard also known as bristle dartboard was longer lasting and when the darts were removed from the board the fibre closed the hole. Today wooden ones are very rare and bristle dartboards are seen nearly everywhere that they play darts.

Rumours say that dart games were popular during the reign of King Henry V111 of England. King Henry enjoyed the game so much that his said wife to be Ann Boleyn gave him a set or rich looking darts to win him over. It is also said that the Pilgrims played darts for fun on their voyage on the Mayflower. Today the sport is popular in Britain, Germany ,Scandinavia, North America. In the USA thousands of dartboards are sold every year and millions of Americans play darts every week, Canada is also a great country for darts, they have dart leagues, in many clubs, pubs and bars. So it does look as if dart games are here for a long time. To anyone who has a club, a pub, or a bar, and that caters to darts, here are a few dartboards I would like to share with you. These can all be found in my dartboard folder at

http://www.zazzle.com/allicor*

I would also like to share some of my friend’s stores where you can have a look at their dartboards

http://www.zazzle.com/stineshop?rf=238218562078565840

http://www.zazzle.com/ixodoi_art?rf=238218562078565840

http://www.zazzle.com/kamizzz?rf=238218562078565840

 

http://www.zazzle.com/kahmier?rf=238218562078565840

 

http://www.zazzle.com/crypticfragments?rf=238218562078565840

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