This page contains links to other webpages suggested by members of the East Kingdom Metalsmiths' Guild.

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Feel free to contact the Webminister to make a suggestion of a link that would be useful to add here, to report a broken link, or to suggest that a link is filed under the wrong category.

Archeology and Museums

• Finnish Silver Hoards (Apollonia)
• The British Museum's Compass : Search for Museum Objects: Hoxne Hoard, Thetford Treasure, Winchester Hoard (Apollonia)
• The Cuerdale hoard (Apollonia)
• Viking Draw Plate (Apollonia)
• online Marburg Foto Archive, otherwise known as bildindex.de (Apollonia)
• English guide to bildindex.de (Apollonia)
• Pretty Beads and Bone Carving: Roman and Byzantine (Apollonia)
• Blumka Gallery (Carowyn)
• hr-replikate.de (Bre)
• pewterreplicas.co.uk (Bre)
• Thistle Terminal (Guillaume)
• The entire artserve collection for collections of jewelry photos in musuems (Apollonia)
• Brief info and pictures of the Ardagh Chalice (Apollonia)
• I *think* this is another girdle prayer book (Apollonia)
• This article, in Swedish, has the best pictures of these objects that I've seen so far. MUST DO THIS SOMEDAY! (Apollonia)
• 14th c enamelled, wire woven, belt (Apollonia)

Books of Interest to Metalworkers in the SCA

• Apollonia's Bookshelf for the SCA Jeweler (Apollonia)

Casting - Pewter - Belts (NEW SECTION)

• (NEW) Plaque Belt (Carowyn)

Classes

• Old Sturbridge Village (blacksmithing) (Anton)
• Worcester Center for Crafts (blacksmithing) (Anton)
• Pennsic (35) A&S Class Signup Page -- let's US do some classes! (Apollonia)
• Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen, York Town Craft Guild (Apollonia)
• (NEW) Professor Hinton's Slides for Alfred Jewel Lecture (Appolonia)

Email Lists

• The St. Dunstan List, including bibliographies from Master Magnus Malleus (Apollonia)
• The Metallum_Lochac Group (Apollonia)

Groups and Organizations with Related Interests

• The Guild of Stone Carvers, Architects and Masons (GoSCAM) (Apollonia)
• Ten different jewelry making forums (Apollonia)
• MJSA (Manufacturing Jewelers and Suppliers of America) Expo New York trade show (Bre)
• SNAG: Society of North American Goldsmiths (Apollonia)
• Society of American Silversmiths (Apollonia)
• American Society of Jewelry Historians (Apollonia)
• Society of Jewellery Historians (Blurb from my website) (Apollonia)
• ABANA (Artist Blacksmith Association of North America) (Bre)
• The Pennsylvania Society of Goldsmiths (Apollonia)

Guild Members and Our Projects(NEW SECTION)

• Map of EKMG Members' Locations (Apollonia)
• Guillaume's metalworking site (Guillaume)
• Photo of 2 SC medallions done in cloisonne (Ygraine)
• Thistle terminal picture 1 (Guillaume)
• Thistle terminal picture 2 (Guillaume)
• Apollonia's Jewelry Historian website (Apollonia)

How-To Articles

• An overview of cuttlebone casting (Apollonia)
• Soldering Techniques (Apollonia)
• Wireworking Techniques (Apollonia)
• Metal Clay Techniques (Apollonia)
• a simple tutorial on one aspect of Viking wire bracelets (thistle terminal) (Guillaume)
• Petra Sancta, false color by crosshatching (CRWFlags) (Carowyn)
• Petra Sancta, false color by crosshatching (Geocities Armoria) (Carowyn)
• How to Forge at 15th c. eating knife (Apollonia)

Modern - Bronzework, Etching

• Another beautiful project (Phlip)
• Etched Brass Armor Embellishements (Apollonia)

Re-Creations of Period Artifacts

• Jean Stark's Chains, Granulation and Rings (Apollonia)
• Rus Kaftan by Graeme Nott [?] : NOTE cuff trimming Trichinopoly Chainwork (Apollonia)
• Belt Fittings at Our Past History gallery (Apollonia)

Weights and Measures

• Ancient weights and measures (Hemyock Castle) (Carowyn)
• Ancient weights and measures (Answers.com) (Carowyn)
• Ancient weights and measures (Wikipedia) (Carowyn)
• Ancient Jewish weights & measures (Carowyn)
• Treatise on ancient Mediterranean weights & measures (Carowyn)

Wire Weaving

• 10th Century Danish Woven Wire Arm Ring by Danr Bjornsson (Apollonia)
• A Necklace of Attempts at the Romersdal Hammer, Beads from Eidem, and a Knit Chain from Denmark (Apollonia)
• Baroness Betha of Bedford's Wire Weaving Web Pages (Apollonia)
• How to make a Viking Wire Bracelet by Guillaume de la Sudeterre (Apollonia)
• Chainwork Class Handouts (Apollonia)
• Trichinopoly Documentation (PDF) (Apollonia)

Links Pages

• Apollonia's Links Page (Apollonia)
• Atlantia's A&S Links (Apollonia)
• Atlantian A&S Links site (searchable) (Apollonia)

Not sure where to file these: any ideas?

• Brynmorgen Resources page (Apollonia)
• Rendering Templates (3.1 MB pdf) (Apollonia)
• Sample software (Apollonia)
• Elements & Alloys (52K pdf) (Apollonia)
• Studio Layout Templates (44K pdf) (Apollonia)
• Circle Divider (52K pdf) (Apollonia)
• Repetitive Strain Injuries (92K pdf) (Apollonia)
• Complete Metalsmith Chocolate Cake (108K pdf) (Apollonia)
• Crossword (80K pdf) (Apollonia)

Vendors:

Disclaimer: links on this page are in no way endorsements of the following vendors, but have been found useful by Guild members.

Books

• A selection of smithing books (block, tin, copper, etc) (Danabren)
• Lark Books seeks photos of earrings made by studio jewelers (like us!), for inclusion in their upcoming book '500 Earrings'. (Carowyn)

Jeweler's supply houses

• Caldron Crafts (Apollonia)
• Contenti (Apollonia)
• Rio Grande (Apollonia)

Raw Materials

• Copper, brass and nickel wire, sheet nails and screws (Apollonia)
• Enamels and enameling supplies (Apollonia)
• Gem carving rough (Apollonia)
• Pewter, brass, bronze, lead and other casting metals (several)
• Wax carving supplies (Apollonia)

Used Tools

• Sheely Wholesale Distributors (Lancaster, PA) (Apollonia)