Hallo slingers,
here're a few pics of the last exhibition we were involved in; we had to show some ancient skills to high school students, we were hosted by a local Archaeological Museum and had a chance to use its garden.
So we decided to show ironsmithing and pottery making, but enough words, here are the pictures
a couple of short swords I made from iron billets
when I was working on the ship last year, my mate Fabio (Arte Picena's co-founder) and another friend of us were able to set up a first exhibition on this garden. The garden was unused since 2004 and they had to clean it up a bit, but they built an Iron Age hut and a tomb for didactical purposes.
decorations made of bronze, amber and glass beads
Cooking the pottery lasted all day long, we'll go check the results tomorrow. We cooked some clay moulds for bronze items (the pink ones) and some common Iron Age ware.
Our standard forge... the black bellow is mine and it's used for ironsmithing, while the brown couple belong to Fabio, he uses them for melting bronze. I managed to reach over 1500° Celsius with my single bellows, melting iron!
Fabio describes what me and Gianluca are doing to a group of students...
Interacting with the students!
And here's a sample video of how an Iron Age forge works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O16z3LDva0sIf you liked everything above, don't forget to like us on the Facebook - just look for "Arte Picena"
Any comment and question welcome!! Thanks for watching guys!
Mauro.