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Traditional Damascus steel, also known as Pattern Weld, Damascene, or Damast, was first produced over two thousand years ago. It has lived in legend and is referred to as the steel of the ancients.
Pattern welding is when different steels are stacked in a pattern into a block or billet, putting them together and holding them with a steel wire until the first weld is in place. The more intricate patterns are often layers of damascus that have been twisted or deformed in some way, cut and stacked in a manner that when welded together gives a very unique pattern to the finished blade.
The pieces are thinned out drastically, and then removed from the furnace where the blacksmith folds the steel over and over; most commonly you will have over 500 layers when the smith is done. The folding and adding of the layers are what makes the steel strong. The whole process is what causes the steel to be as great as it is.
Finally, after the blade of the Damascus knives are shaped, they are placed back into the furnace until it reaches a temperature of 1500 degrees. It is removed and is quenched in oil. The blade then needs to be tempered so it is heated back to 425 degrees for about 2 hours. After it cools, it is sanded with fine sandpaper and sharpened. The etching in the blade is done by using a mix of acid and water to eat away the softer metal revealing that Damascus steel look and feel.
The image, (shot on transparency film and a soft looking scan) was made in a very crowded street in Old Damascus, actually the beginning of the Biblical Street Called Straight, the school bus was stuck in the morning traffic and car horns were blaring, as I spotted the kids in the window, I was jostled and jogged as I stopped to shoot, for only a brief moment time stopped and I didn’t notice the chaos, only the moment.
Despite everything that followed and continues to blight the country I will always remember the humanity and moments like this, the many moments that made it very easy for me to live there for so long.
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John Wreford is a freelance photographer based in Turkey
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Scanned print.
Mamiya 645 ProTL w/ M-S 120 mm/f4 macro.
Oct 10, 2022.
Fomapan 100 in Rodinal 1+100, semistand 1 h.
Printed on Fomatone MG 133, developed in Adox Adotol and toned in somewhat tired Moersch MT2 (carbon toner) 1+25, 10 min.
PS borders.
Japanese Damascus multilayer steel knifes are beautiful, ...and very sharp! :-)
you can see this view from the top of blodan mountain!!
I'm wating For snow, hope it's come early this year!!
The venerable Swiss SLM loco heads a special train towards Ein Al Fejeh out of the Damascus suburbs.
Almost my first shot of the trip and I slipped on a polished tiled floor, broke my fall with the second camera body - and that was the end of that. From then on, I was having to change lenses far too often - never good in dusty desert conditions.
Syria. October 2007. © David Hill
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ST NMWA is about to cross Fuller Road near Etna, Maine at the site of a former Maine Central station stop known as Damascus.
An extremely handsome baker in my opinion! Also in the old city of Damascus. Some people have told me that he is too sophisticated and hence out of place... I a still couldn't resist his charm :)
Walked around ancient area of Damascus, the Masjid Umayyah, Maqams of
hundreds of Sahaba and Tabiin, and here at the Hamidiah Suq with Bazli,
son of Azmil Mustapha.
I had never heard of them before. Apparently this was a one time only reunion for them. At Manitoba Metalfest 2018, Park Theatre, Winnipeg.