Casting

Includes 14th century illustrati ons, iconograph y, and artifacts which inspired the project.

An overview into the materials, tools, and layout and carving techniques that a newcomer will need to turn a simple piece of soapstone into a mould ready to use for pewter casting. It should provide the necessary informatio n to create a simple one sided mould for items such as award medallions , basic pilgrimage badges, event tokens, or belt buckles – essentiall y, any basically flat object.

"The Celtic Art and Cultures Web Site was created for use in the Art History course Celtic Art and Cultures (Art 111) at UNC in the Fall semester, 1998." This site continues to be maintained and is an outstanding collection (searchable database) of online photographs of artifacts. Each photograph is document with details on the type of object, material it is made from, historical period, archeological find spot, country, date, and the museum or personal collection the object resides in.

The full text of the English translation, featuring recipes for artists' supplies, and instructions for techniques.

This comprehens ive report represents a landmark in the publicatio n of medieval finds from excavation s in York. It encompasse s very large assemblage s of medieval artefacts of a wide variety of materials, including iron, non-ferrou s metal, stone, jet, amber, fired clay, glass and textile. These were recovered from four major sites in York.

Short overview of history, treatment & storage, replicas by impression: classical technique.

Selected illustrati ons from the Mendel Hausbuch, depicting 15th and early 16th century craftsmen at work.

The illustrati ons from the Mendel and Landauer Housebooks , indexed by profession and with lists of items found in each illustrati on.

Examples of late medieval belts decorated with heraldic plaques, along with photos of the process of molding the buckle and mounts, making the strap end and buckle plate, and attaching the metal to the leather for the final belt.

The Pewterers Guild is dedicated to the art of pewter casting using period techniques. The Pewterers Guild organizes classes, encourages the creation of site tokens and of personal tokens, and encourages discussion.

Participation with the guild is open to anyone who has interest, regardless of geography. Our e-mail discussion list includes artisans from throughout the known world and we encourage all pewterers to join the ongoing conversation.

A gallery of photos taken during a trip to the museum, including a folding table (1480-1500); casting molds; a brooch; some wooden combs; six candlesticks (14th-15th centuries); a clasp (13th century); belts (14th and 15th centuries); carvings in ivory and wood; a pig-face bascinet; a mail shirt; a 14th century dagger and some sword pommels; and a chest, stool, and bed at the Design Museum.

The Trundholm sun chariot was found in 1902 in the Trundholm bog at Sjælland, Denmark. In order to celebrate the anniversary of the finding, and to provide Trundholm with a replica of the chariot to be used in childrens history classes, a cooperative project was initiated between craftsmen from different European countries who reconstructed and cast the different parts of the chariot. This was made during the summer 2002, and the parts were assembled at an anniversary festival in Denmark in September 2002.

22 November 2006 article appearing in Chemistry World. Royal Society of Chemistry.

We experimented with stone and clay moulds, using a variety of techniques, and researched furnace technologies.

This page deals with ancient metalcraft and research mainly from a reconstructional and experimental basis. The page will provide texts, resources and links related to the archaeology of ancient and early historic metalcrafts. The Iron Age/early Middle Age founders cast in techniques with roots deep down in Bronze Age and the methods presented here could, with slight adjustments, be considered relevant for all the Scandinavian Iron Age and up into the Middle Ages.