Introductory note

As the opening page of this site should be kept as short and to the point as possible, we decided to move some sentences from it here:

Very little of the knowledge of medieval craftsmen have survived in written form, a lot more can be learned through objects uncovered by archaeologists. To ''distill'' the information out of these objects requires a fair amount of understanding and attention to detail. Through finely tuned intuition and observation, some things indeed can be learned straight at the writing desk. But the Royal Highway through the realm of these strange materials and their working is, we are certain, in the work itself. Only when one has worked with these materials, using similar tools to those used by medieval professionals, one can slowly gain understanding, and insight, and fine-tune one's intuition so that each archaeological find ''speaks'' under one's gaze.