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A thread about hinges.Or, Sutton Hoo, Problem-Solving, and Syncretic Workshop Practice.If you can suggest good examples of hinges from the Early Medieval, Late Iron Age, or Late Roman periods, please

The Sutton Hoo ship burial is famous for several reasons - the quality of the metalwork, the apparent wealth of the person buried there, and their connections to an international

Something I have often wondered is how hard it is to do openwork, but without the modern jeweller's saw. Nowadays, we'd say fretwork, or piercing, but it's quite different to

This morning, I engraved the silver ring. It is based on the Kingmoor ring, I'm using marker pen for emphasis, but ink or oxidation can be used. I've already cut

Today, I have been making a ring using mostly medieval methods. My cheats are a blowtorch, and borax, but otherwise, I'm trying to restrict myself. (And baking bread, but this

Thread: The books that matter. These are extant texts; I might do another one for modern books. First, Theophrastus - in reality, only a few pages of descriptions of minerals,