Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Significance of Beaded Edges/Borders on South Indian Weapons?

ariel · 7th March 2019, 04:14 AM

One can google British filigree, Czech, Ukrainian, Moroccan, Norwegian, Dutch, Japanese, Brazilian etc, etc. My first two examples in post #20 are Ottoman. It was and is everywhere. Everybody either “invented” or borrowed it. One would have hard time trying to prove primacy of South India.

7th March 2019, 04:14 AM	#33
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	One can google British filigree, Czech, Ukrainian, Moroccan, Norwegian, Dutch, Japanese, Brazilian etc, etc. My first two examples in post #20 are Ottoman. It was and is everywhere. Everybody either “invented” or borrowed it. One would have hard time trying to prove primacy of South India.