Enquiry on pamor name

[A. G. Maisey]

YS there are two basic types of pamor construction:-

pamor mlumah and pamor miring

in pamor mlumah the layers of pamor material lay in the same plane as the core of the blade

in pamor miring the layers of pamor material stand at more or less 90 degrees to the plane of the blade

pamor wos wutah is a mlumah pamor and it is the foundation for other pamors where the motif is created by surface manipulation of the pamor material

a billet of unmanipulated mlumah pamor material is also the foundation for pamor motifs that are created by twisting and pamor motifs that are created by bending

in my opinion the best information on how various motifs are created in pattern welding is in a knife makers book:- "The Pattern Welded Blade", the author was Jim Hrisoulas

when Pauzan Pusposukadgo was experimenting with creating pamor motifs he used plasticene to test how various forms of manipulation might produce various pamor motifs. This was in the late 1970's & early 1980's, at that time there was virtually nothing in print to help us, anybody trying to forge weld ferric material and nickel had to work it out for themselves.