I’ve been pulled in to the wonderful world of leatherworking, and to accommodate it in my workshop I’ve made some changes. The most important change is the introduction of a new chair! I’m usually not sitting down while working, but now it is much more important to be comfortable while sewing or tooling leather. I...| Silfer Works
A recent study by the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) is rewriting history regarding how politics and industry interacted in early imperial China. Researchers in the university’s Archaeo-metallurgy Laboratory have tracked the evolution of bronze mirror making back to a time of economic recovery and state-backed reform during the reigns of Emperors […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A recent international study has explained the history of Sardinia’s iconic bronzetti statues, showing previously unknown facts about Bronze Age metallurgy and long-distance trade in the Mediterranean. Using advanced scientific methods, researchers have determined that the Nuragic people, who flourished on the island during the early first millennium BCE, used local and imported metals to […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A new study has indicated that Britain’s industrial economy did not collapse with the Romans’ withdrawal, but instead continued for centuries, and actually reached its major revival during the Viking Age. The finding contradicts the classical idea that Roman Britain’s withdrawal led to a “Dark Age” with economic decline and cultural stagnation. The research, conducted […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
I was visiting my childhood home in Finland, and while I was sitting in the sauna I realised that my old sauna ladle was still there. It was made by me when I was around 10 years old, and it has been in my parents| Silfer Works
My neighbour told me that there is a soapbox car race planned for the neighbourhood kids in three weeks. I of course loved the idea! Just one problem: We don’t have a soapbox car… It would be pretty tight with only three weeks to the race, but I was sure that I was able to...| Silfer Works
