The damascened lines are supposed to suggest the hairpin pattern popular in the neighboring Tibet. This is done by arranging steel/ iron rods, bending them 180 degrees backward at the future tip and forging them together.
However, I can see no bend and the lines obligingly go under the fullered area (suggesting to me that they were introduced AFTER the entire blade was forged).
From here is my question: is the blade truly laminated in the hairpin technique or were these lines in effect superficial mini-fullers designed to imitate the above technique? There are known blades of such a variety, so that might not be a surprise.
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