Talk:Pattern welding
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I am not sure that the technique described is exactly what I remember from a lecture I attended at MIT in the late 1960's, which was given by the British museum expert (I do not remember his name right now) who named the technique. It seems to me that one of the points was the all the layers did not have to be the same metal. I know that this is true for the Jappanese sword, but I seem to remember that the Viking examples used a harder metal in the center for the edge and a tougher metal in outside layers. I also believe that a prominent professor of metalurgy in the audience responded by describing some similar examples from an Asian tradition. Sorry this is all so vague, but I do not think that the definition of pattern welding should exclude using layers of dissimilar metals.