Lady Liberty’s Steel II—Fires of Perseverance, a one-of-a-kind 16 ¾” Damascus dagger by the world’s first woman American Bladesmith Society Master Smith, Audra Draper, will be auctioned ...

In Round Two of the first ever Forged in Fire Invitational Tournament, four armorers must forge a Damascus blade out of something familiar: plate armor. Two exhausting rounds of failed forge welds ...

It is believed that Damascus blades were forged directly from small cakes of steel (named 'wootz') produced in ancient India. A sophisticated thermomechanical treatment of forging and annealing ...

Damascus blades were forged from small cakes of steel from India called ‘wootz’. All steel is made by allowing iron with carbon to harden the resulting metal.