05-06-2005, 12:57 PM
[url:71rc0ivr]http://www.templ.net/who_is_patrick_barta.php[/url]
It took me some time to figure out again how to get the english version. You just had to click on the TEMPL logo...
Never mind.. Her's the link in english. It will take you to the intro with the name of the armourer, who is called Patrick Barta. I browsed through Patrick Barta's site and he is definitely one of the outstanding swordmakers of our age. His swords are made just the way they were, starting not even from scratch but from iron ore, then smelting it the good old fashioned way, then...Well you'll see. It's worth a visit. Every one of his swords is based on an actual artefact.
Someone asked where he could find a late-late roman spatha. Well if you have the tons of money, that's where they are. And many, many more.
Patrick Barta performs very, very high quality work and naturally his works of art --really-- are very expensive.
But browsing through his site is free, and everyone has the right to dream...
It took me some time to figure out again how to get the english version. You just had to click on the TEMPL logo...
Never mind.. Her's the link in english. It will take you to the intro with the name of the armourer, who is called Patrick Barta. I browsed through Patrick Barta's site and he is definitely one of the outstanding swordmakers of our age. His swords are made just the way they were, starting not even from scratch but from iron ore, then smelting it the good old fashioned way, then...Well you'll see. It's worth a visit. Every one of his swords is based on an actual artefact.
Someone asked where he could find a late-late roman spatha. Well if you have the tons of money, that's where they are. And many, many more.
Patrick Barta performs very, very high quality work and naturally his works of art --really-- are very expensive.
But browsing through his site is free, and everyone has the right to dream...
Pascal Sabas
