Reminds me of my Kurdish Grandma who owned a dagger. Most harmless, sweet woman alive and too afraid to touch it to. But she had one.
It’s odd the blades themselves are not depicted and the focus is on the scabbards. The polar opposite of Japanese sword-making.
The author should make a coffee table book,, if there is collectors' interest in them and not that much easily-findable information (at least for westerners).
Cue all these weird dagger names showing up in Diablo 5 :-)
Nowhere did the article fulfill the opening promise of explaining what makes them so great or interesting. It's just a list of names of the variations and where they come from.
I was hoping to find out why they have that shape and the "many nuances" of the design.
How are the scabbards so curvy? Is the blade simply very short?