Things tagged as Knapping.
Pyrites
I woke up this morning thinking about the fractions of Iron Pyrites that are found on the coast. I remember the story I once was told about Iron - falling down from ...
Knapping Saturday
In the short break that the rain had on Saturday, some fine June sunshine baked us - a group of nine would be flintknappers in a farm near Buxted, East Sussex. The ...
Ivory Moon
I have been filing a warthog tusk to make it into a flintknapping tool. The collected filings make ivory white dust. I will use the white grounded stuff on black charred ivory and ...
Flint, the Sea #2, and Man.
I wanted to use in a work the process occurring to flint and chalk in the coast. It is very easy for me to fall into an illustrative mode in which a ...
Flint - Earth and Sea
Looking at the flakes on the ground; then rearranging them from the nodule to the tiniest of flakes produced by the pressure of a pointed antler's tine against a palm covered with ...
Knapping # 2
After a three hours session with Will Lord, in which I have bashed and crumbled and flaked and reduced fine quarried flint to dust, I can see ...
Knapping
I was striking flints together yesterday. The sun was shining just after the rain and the birds were singing. At first i wasn't sure the smell was coming from the flint. It ...