The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . ses of inlaying or plating one metalinto or upon a metal of another colour, as for in-stance gold or silver into or upon iron, to which pro-cesses the term is in common parlance too often ap-plied. In damascening, wires, strips, plates, etc.,of steel or iron, of different forms and varied in com-position or in degrees of hardness, are laid side byside in any desired pattern, heated, and welded to-gether on the anvil. A slight treatment of the sur-face with weak acid, or exposure for a time to theaction of the earth or of the atmosphere, brings
The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . ses of inlaying or plating one metalinto or upon a metal of another colour, as for in-stance gold or silver into or upon iron, to which pro-cesses the term is in common parlance too often ap-plied. In damascening, wires, strips, plates, etc.,of steel or iron, of different forms and varied in com-position or in degrees of hardness, are laid side byside in any desired pattern, heated, and welded to-gether on the anvil. A slight treatment of the sur-face with weak acid, or exposure for a time to theaction of the earth or of the atmosphere, brings tolight slight differences in colour or texture amongthe pieces thus united, and with a little ingenuity,by twisting the piece and then hammering it outagain, or by similar artifices, all sorts of wavy pat-terns can be produced. The best proofs of Teutonic skill in this craft areto be found in the numerous sword-blades discover-ed in the Nydam Moss in Schleswig (ante, p. 30), thegreat majority (90 per cent.) of which are treated in 186 PLATE XXV. 97
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