Wild damask

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Wild damask is usually a hand-made folded and forged steel composite that is used for knives and edged weapons .

Wild damask consists of a few dozen to several hundred layers. In contrast to machine / industrially produced damask steels, the resulting irregular “wild” patterns are often intentional. The pattern formation is deliberately reduced. This results in a creative, original, sometimes archaic impression.

See also: Damascus steel

literature

  • Heinz Denig: Old blacksmithing: Damascus steel (= contributions to Palatinate folklore. Volume 2). 7th edition. Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern 2008, ISBN 3-927754-04-8 , p. 107 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Andreas Kalweit, Christof Paul, Sascha Peters, Reiner Wallbaum (Eds.): Handbook for Technical Product Design. Material and production, decision-making bases for designers and engineers. 2nd Edition. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-02641-6 , p. 445 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

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