2023年4月27日 · Nail technology during the Middle Ages had functional purposes, with a strong emphasis on hygiene and health. However, as society evolved, the role of nail technology began to shift towards fashion and aesthetics, with religious and royal influences playing a significant role in shaping this evolution.

2019年6月19日 · There’s no sense at all in forging a medieval nail. Some skilled woodworkers like Christopher Schwarz say that such nails are far superior to wire nails.

nails for purposes of identi6cation and comparison with other nail types. In medieval England nails were made into a great variety of special shapes and sizes and sold by the hundred, e.g., 8d (pence) per 100 nails. From this practice developed the …

Medieval nails were made by hand, either by a general ironworker (blacksmith) or by a specialist nail maker. Contrary to the popular image of dark medieval furniture, medieval nails and other ironwork were sometimes tinned for a bright appearance.

2024年11月18日 · What was the method of removing nails in medieval times? The first option was cutting your nails with a small knife, but this was considered dangerous because you could hurt yourself, and miss cutting a nail could hurt pretty bad. You couldn’t rotate your fingers and toes and you had to cut very carefully.

More nails can be found in the Portable Antiquities Scheme Finds Database. Medieval nails, and images of nails and nail-making from the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

This paper reevaluates the current terms and typology used for small functional iron artifacts from medieval northwestern Europe and discusses the advantages of a more uniform terminology for understanding the morphological and functional differences between nails, rivets and clench bolts.

Saxon and mediaeval carpentry relied heavily on this principle and the great timber-framed buildings from the C12th onwards relied on it entirely. Even into the Tudor period building repairs were being effected solely in timber with wooden pegs known as trenails (treenails) acting as we would use nails or screws today.

This paper proposes a new recording methodology, developed through analysis of the Roman structural nail assemblage from the MHI A14 Cambridge-Huntingdon excavations alongside experiments in nail shaping, with wider context provided by medieval and post-medieval assemblages from the City of London.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, which occupied the throne of China from 1644 to 1912, huzhi were invented. They were created by jewelers specifically to preserve the long nails of aristocrats, including the emperor. The word "huzhi" also translates simply as "finger protection". But this protection was special.