Pilníkářské řemeslo - technologie rukodělné výroby

• Authors: Václav Michalička

Title variants

EN

File making - handicraft technology

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

File making is a less known branch of smithery, the production of which can be divided into two basic typologically distinct groups - files and rasps. Handmaking of a range of files and rasps included a number of special operations, which led the metal processing sector into becoming a specialized and independent area. The fundamental task of file-making was to create a cutting edge on a prepared forged piece of a file or rasp item. The oldest method was hand crafting which survived from ancient times until the 20th century in almost unchanged form. Independent areas with a strong concentration of file manufacturing were established thanks to some specific conditions. In the Svratka region, a significant part of archaic technologies referring deep into the past of file manufacturing all the way to the 1950s was preserved due to the prosperity of file making.

Keywords

EN

file making; file; rasp; craft; handicraft; workshop; manufacturing tools

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Czech Ethnological Society
• Journal: Národopisný věstník
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 30_(72)
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 59-79
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Václav Michalička

• Česká národopisná společnost, z. s., Národní třída 3, 117 20 Praha 1, Czech Republic