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This website is dedicated to the traditional handmade edged weapons and armour of many diverse cultures worldwide, some currently, but mostly formerly, in production and use. The index references other noncommercial websites as well as material original to this site.

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North America
espada ancha  Espada Ancha - Swords of Mexico and Spanish Colonial America

South America
cuchillo gaucho
(creole knives)
 Gaucho knives: Facón, Daga, Cuchilla and Puñal by Abel A. Domenech
 Knives of the Gaucho

Africa
   AfricanWeapons.com - Web exhibition including throwing knives, axes, daggers and swords
 koummya  Koummya - Moroccan Daggers
 takouba  Takouba - Swords of the Saharan Tuareg
 kaskara  Kaskara - Broadswords of Sudanic Africa

Europe
 Medieval Sword Resource Site (500 - 1500)
   Rapiers by William Wilson (1500 - 1675)
   European Swords by Jean Binck (1650 - 1900)
 Poland  Eastern Influences on Polish Arms (pdf) by Michal Dziewulski (2007 Timonium Ethnographic Arms Seminar)

Asia
   (Technical Analysis of) Indo-Persian Blades in the Collection of E. Gene Beall by Dr. Ann Feuerbach (pdf)
 shamshir  Shamshir: Traditional Sabers of Islam (Persia , Mughal India and the Arab World)
 ke tri  Tibetan Swords
 piha kaetta  Pihakaetta.com: A Resource and Information Site
 daos  Sword-daos of the Naga and Kachin
 Daos of the Hill Tribes of Assam and Nagaland
 dha  The Dha Research Index by Mark Bowditch
 The Swords of Continental Southeast Asia by Ian A. Greaves, Mark I. Bowditch & Andrew Y. Winston
 kiem & dao  The Swords of Vietnam by Scott Rodell
 keris  Origin of the Keris and Its Development to the 14th Century by A. G. Maisey
 Paul's Keris Page
 Philippine Islands  Federico's Moro Swords
 Malay World Edged Weapons (Indonesia - Malaysia - Philippines) by Dominique Buttin
 Plates from Krieger's ...Weapons and Armor of the Philippine Islands... (1926)
 Hinalung & Pinahig: Weapon -Tools of the Igorot
 Formosa  Knives of the Taiwan Aborigines by Sherrod V. Anderson & Philip Tom
 nihonto  The Japanese Sword by Richard Stein (mirror)
 tsuba  Art of the Japanese Sword: Tsuba by Jim Gilbert

 Worldwide
   Notes on the Development of the Machete by Carter Rila
   Blade Patterns Intrinsic to Steel Edged Weapons

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