"Sometimes it just takes a little bit of a sparkle of gold or a little bit of silver to kind of reveal that once this was golden."
Armorer Hermes Knauer reminisces about some of the beautiful objects he has rescued and on the spirituality of craftsmanship.
Connections: Reverence
Armorer Hermes Knauer reminisces about some of the beautiful objects he has rescued and on the spirituality of craftsmanship.
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Armorer Filippo Negroli
dated 1543
grip, Indian; guard, scabbard, and decoration on blade, Turkish; blade, Iranian
grip, 18th or 19th century; guard and scabbard, 19th century; blade, dated A.H. 1099/1688 CE; decoration on blade, 19th century
Swordsmith Inscribed Etchū no kami Fujiwara Takahira
dated June 1622
Tibetan or Mongolian
late 15th–early 17th century
Indian
dated A.H. 1042/1632–33 CE
India (Gujarat, Patan)
last quarter of 16th century
Joachim Friess
ca. 1620
Etruscan
2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE
Elamite
ca. 1500–1100 BCE
610–595 B.C.