Thread: Yemen Jambiya?
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Old 27th September 2009, 10:47 PM   #30
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Jewish guilds tradionally have done much of the silver and gold work. Even today silver work or koftkagari would be done in a seperate workshop than the forging of blades. One workshop does not generally do all the work on a finished piece for sale but draws on a lot of subcontractors.
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