Wootz steel
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The Crusades, Wootz/Damascus Steel, Pandanus and Dumbara Mats,
A post on Sri Lanka’s Pandanus species and the blue-flowered Kora-kaha, covering their uses in cooking, coastal protection, Dumbara mats and the yellow dye for monks’ robes, and tenuously linking…
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Carbon Steel and Zinc in India
Sbarrkum, prompted by a reader comment, assembles excerpts on early Indian zinc distillation in retorts and on wootz carbon steel from southern India, which he says is thought to be…
