Nioi (匂)
Japanese word for fine martensite crystals in the blade's temperline.
Nie (沸)
Japanese word for martensite crystals that form in blade under certain conditions.
Khmer dagger
A rare thousand-year-old dagger from the Khmer empire.
Persian wootz double spearhead
Finely crafted wootz blade, and golden inlays at the base.
Persian wootz spearhead
Made using Persian wootz. Pronounced features, chiseled socket.
Studded Eastern Tibetan dagger
Of Kham area regional style, with a grip studded with turquoises and corals.
Kutch shamshir for Benson
Blade of Persian shamshir form, but of Indian make. Mounts in Kutch style gilt copper.
South Indian pattisa
An early example, late Vijayanagara empire, with a fine wootz spatulate blade.
A fine north Indian dagger
Of jambiya form, with pattern welded blade and fine silver scabbard mounts.
Palembang twist-core pedang
A Palembang style sword with a fine twist-core blade and carved hardwood scabbard.
Shakudō (赤銅)
A Japanese alloy containing copper and gold.
Rooster fight kozuka
Executed in gold and silver on a shakudō nanako base, with golden back.
Suassa
A copper-alloy with high gold content that was highly prized in Southeast Asia.
Samrit (សំរិត)
Khmer word for an auspicious copper alloy.
Sawasa
A term used for colonial Asian metalwork in black and gold.
Chinese báitóng whip
A Chinese traditional hidden striking weapon, this time executed in the "white copper" alloy.
Damascening
Inlaying or overlaying of gold or silver on another metal.
A katar with true inlay decoration
Late 17th century. With wootz blade and enamel chape.
Wootz talwar with pierced scabbard
With fine gold overlaid hilt, tight-grained wootz blade and elaborately pierced scabbard.
Talwar hilted shamshir
With a very fine Persian blade of "brilliant black" wootz.
Phaulād (फौलाद्)
Nepali word for wootz, a type of prized crucible steel.
Ispāt (इस्पात्)
Nepali word for steel.
Teišun-i giyan
Manchu for a brass or bronze mace.
A curved Deccan katar
With elaborately pierced and chiseled hilt.
A Deccan chilanum
With wootz blade, and silver overlaid hilt that was finished with fire-gilding.
Large wootz talwar
The hilt inlaid with silver, once blued for added contrast.
Sikkim "ban" sword
With finer forge folded blade than most of its type.
Nanban tetsu (南蠻鉃)
Literally: Southern barbarian steel.
Tachi tsuba of nanban tetsu
A rare 17th-century sword guard made of foreign steel.
A finely forged kora
With very good pattern welded blade, complete with scabbard.
Tóngjiǎn (銅鐧)
Chinese for a bronze mace.
Shibuichi (四分一)
A copper-silver alloy used to make Japanese sword mounts.
Fuchi kashira by Hisayuki
A beautiful signed Japanese ferrule and pommel plate.
A very good Afghan pulouar
With wootz handle with fine pierced pommel dome.
Jiāgāng (加鋼)
A construction of edged weapons where a separate piece of high-carbon steel is forged into layers of milder steel.
Baktong
Cantonese for báitóng.
Báitóng (白銅)
An alloy of copper, nickel, and zinc used among others for sword parts.
Damascus steel
A rather broad term that is used to describe steel that exhibits a fancy pattern.
Twist-core steel
A type of pattern-welding using twisted rods of steel.
Huāwéngāng (花文鋼)
A type of pattern welding known in English as twist-core.
Ancient Ba-Shu dagger
From approximately the 5th to 3rd century B.C.
A large Indian karud dagger
Unusually large and with all-metal handle that opens with a screw.
An Indonesian parang nabur
A saber that is peculiar to the southern part of the island of Borneo.
A fine Chinese yànchìdāo
It comes with its complete set of fittings in a thick gauge of báitóng.
An exceptional khanda
With wootz blade and wootz Hindu basket hilt
Zhibeidao with spectacular blade
Introduction to the type
This type of sword is referred to as zhibeidao (直背刀) or s
Tibetan shortsword with rare blade
With ce rong or "open ravines" pattern of zig-zag lines in the steel.
A fine khanda with pierced hilt
Presented here is a beautiful khanda with an exceptionally fine pierced hilt.
