This page contains links to other webpages suggested by members of the East Kingdom Metalsmiths' Guild.

Feel free to contact the Webminister to make a suggestion of a link that would be useful to add here, to report a broken link, or to suggest that a link is filed under the wrong category.

Archeology and Museums

Finnish Silver Hoards (Apollonia)
The British Musuem's Compass : Search for Museum Objects: Hoxne Hoard, Thetford Treasure, Winchester Hoard (Apollonia)
The Cuerdale hoard (Apollonia)
Viking Draw Plate (Apollonia)
(NEW) online Marburg Foto Archive, otherwise known as bildindex.de (Apollonia)
(NEW) English guide to bildindex.de (Apollonia)
(NEW) Pretty Beads and Bone Carving: Roman and Byzantine (Apollonia)
(NEW) Blumka Gallery (Carowyn)
(NEW) hr-replikate.de (Bre)
(NEW) pewterreplicas.co.uk (Bre)
(NEW) Thistle Terminal (Guillaume)
(NEW) The entire artserve collection for collections of jewelry photos in musuems (Apollonia)
(NEW) Brief info and pictures of the Ardagh Chalice (Apollonia)
(NEW) I *think* this is another girdle prayer book (Apollonia)
(NEW) This article, in Swedish, has the best pictures of these objects that I've seen so far. MUST DO THIS SOMEDAY! (Apollonia)
(NEW) 14th c enamelled, wire woven, belt (Apollonia)

Books of Interest to Metalworkers in the SCA

Apollonia's Bookshelf for the SCA Jeweler (Apollonia)

Classes (NEW SECTION)

(NEW) Old Sturbridge Village (blacksmithing) (Anton)
(NEW) Worcester Center for Crafts (blacksmithing) (Anton)
(NEW) Pennsic (35) A&S Class Signup Page -- let's US do some classes! (Apollonia)
(NEW) Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen, York Town Craft Guild (Apollonia)

Email Lists (NEW SECTION)

(NEW) The St. Dunstan List, including bibliographies from Master Magnus Malleus (Apollonia)
(NEW) The Metallum_Lochac Group (Apollonia)

Groups and Organizations with Related Interests (NEW SECTION)

(NEW) The Guild of Stone Carvers, Architects and Masons (GoSCAM) (Apollonia)
(NEW) Ten different jewelry making forums (Apollonia)
(NEW) MJSA (Manufacturing Jewelers and Suppliers of America) Expo New York trade show (Bre)
(NEW) SNAG: Society of North American Goldsmiths (Apollonia)
(NEW) Society of American Silversmiths (Apollonia)
(NEW) American Society of Jewelry Historians (Apollonia)
(NEW) Society of Jewellery Historians (Blurb from my website) (Apollonia)
(NEW) ABANA (Artist Blacksmith Association of North America) (Bre)
(NEW) The Pennsylvania Society of Goldsmiths (Apollonia)

Guild Members and Our Projects(NEW SECTION)

(NEW) Map of EKMG Members' Locations (Apollonia)
(NEW) Guillaume's metalworking site (Guillaume)
(NEW) Photo of 2 SC medallions done in cloisonne (Ygraine)
(NEW) Thistle terminal picture 1 (Guillaume)
(NEW) Thistle terminal picture 2 (Guillaume)
(NEW) Apollonia's Jewelry Historian website (Apollonia)

How-To Articles

(NEW) An overview of cuttlebone casting (Apollonia)
(NEW) Soldering Techniques (Apollonia)
(NEW) Wireworking Techniques (Apollonia)
(NEW) Metal Clay Techniques (Apollonia)
(NEW) a simple tutorial on one aspect of Viking wire bracelets (thistle terminal) (Guillaume)
(NEW) Petra Sancta, false color by crosshatching (CRWFlags) (Carowyn)
(NEW) Petra Sancta, false color by crosshatching (Geocities Armoria) (Carowyn)
(NEW) How to Forge at 15th c. eating knife (Apollonia)

Modern - Bronzework, Etching

Another beautiful project (Phlip)
(NEW) Etched Brass Armor Embellishements (Apollonia)

Re-Creations of Period Artifacts

Jean Stark's Chains, Granulation and Rings (Apollonia)
Rus Kaftan by Graeme Nott [?] : NOTE cuff trimming Trichinopoly Chainwork (Apollonia)
(NEW) Belt Fittings at Our Past History gallery (Apollonia)

Weights and Measures

Ancient weights and measures (Hemyock Castle) (Carowyn)
Ancient weights and measures (Answers.com) (Carowyn)
Ancient weights and measures (Wikipedia) (Carowyn)
Ancient Jewish weights & measures (Carowyn)
Treatise on ancient Mediterranean weights & measures (Carowyn)

Wire Weaving

10th Century Danish Woven Wire Arm Ring by Danr Bjornsson (Apollonia)
A Necklace of Attempts at the Romersdal Hammer, Beads from Eidem, and a Knit Chain from Denmark (Apollonia)
Baroness Betha of Bedford's Wire Weaving Web Pages (Apollonia)
How to make a Viking Wire Bracelet by Guillaume de la Sudeterre (Apollonia)
Chainwork Class Handouts (Apollonia)
Trichinopoly Documentation (PDF) (Apollonia)

Links Pages

Apollonia's Links Page (Apollonia)
Atlantia's A&S Links (Apollonia)
(NEW) Atlantian A&S Links site (searchable) (Apollonia)

Not sure where to file these: any ideas? (NEW SECTION)

(NEW) Brynmorgen Resources page (Apollonia)
(NEW) Rendering Templates (3.1 MB pdf) (Apollonia)
(NEW) Sample software (Apollonia)
(NEW) Elements & Alloys (52K pdf) (Apollonia)
(NEW) Studio Layout Templates (44K pdf) (Apollonia)
(NEW) Circle Divider (52K pdf) (Apollonia)
(NEW) Repetitive Strain Injuries (92K pdf) (Apollonia)
(NEW) Complete Metalsmith Chocolate Cake (108K pdf) (Apollonia)
(NEW) Crossword (80K pdf) (Apollonia)

Vendors:

Disclaimer: links on this page are in no way endorsements of the following vendors, but have been found useful by Guild members.

Books

(NEW) A selection of smithing books (block, tin, copper, etc) (Danabren)
(NEW) Lark Books seeks photos of earrings made by studio jewelers (like us!), for inclusion in their upcoming book '500 Earrings'. (Carowyn)

Jeweler’s supply houses

Caldron Crafts (Apollonia)
Contenti (Apollonia)
Rio Grande (Apollonia)

Raw Materials

Copper, brass and nickel wire, sheet nails and screws (Apollonia)
Enamels and enameling supplies (Apollonia)
Gem carving rough (Apollonia)
Pewter, brass, bronze, lead and other casting metals (several)
(NEW) Wax carving supplies (Apollonia)

Used Tools

Sheely Wholesale Distributors (Lancaster, PA) (Apollonia)