See also:

• DAMASK

DAMASK See also:

• STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

STEEL, or See also:

• DAMASCUS

DAMASCUS STEEL  , a See also:

• STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel with a See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar watered or streaked See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance, as seen in the See also:

• BLADES, WILLIAM (1824-1890)

blades of See also:

• FINE

fine swords and other weapons of See also:

• ORIENTAL

Oriental manufacture . One way of producing this appearance is to twist together strips of See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron and steel of different quality and then weld them into a solid See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass . A similar but inferior result may be obtained by See also:

• ETCHING (Dutch, etsen, to eat)

etching with See also:

• ACID (from the Lat. root ac-, sharp; acere, to be sour)

acid the See also:

• SURFACE

surface of a See also:

• METAL
• METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)

metal; parts of which are protected by some greasy substance in such a way as to give the watered See also:

• PATTERN

pattern desired . The See also:

• ART

art of producing See also:

• DAMASK

damask steel has been generally practised in Oriental countries from a remote See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period, the most famous blades having come from See also:

• ISFAHAN (older form Ispahan)

Isfahan, See also:

• KHORASAN, or KHORASSAN (i.e. " land of the sun ")

Khorasan, and See also:

• SHIRAZ

Shiraz in See also:

• PERSIA

Persia .