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CharlesS · 22nd March 2014, 12:33 PM

Runjeet,

Interesting thought, though there are some swords mounted in all wootz hilts(some decorated with gold koftgari...some not).

I think it may have been a matter of personal tastes. I believe in Persian poetry there is reference to "the warrior's black blade". This tells me that there was a certain amount of pride in the wootz itself.

I guess we will really never know what was behind the wootz on wootz combination.

22nd March 2014, 12:33 PM	#16
CharlesS Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Greenville, NC Posts: 1,855	Runjeet, Interesting thought, though there are some swords mounted in all wootz hilts(some decorated with gold koftgari...some not). I think it may have been a matter of personal tastes. I believe in Persian poetry there is reference to "the warrior's black blade". This tells me that there was a certain amount of pride in the wootz itself. I guess we will really never know what was behind the wootz on wootz combination.