All about martelage
Martelage is the term I use for the all-over hammering on copper pans.
Construction
A deeper dive into the techniques of historical coppersmithing
All about lids
Here’s some guidance on the type of lid you have — or what type you need.
All about rolled rims
A rolled rim is an indicator that a copper pan is thin. Sometimes that’s fine, but other times it’s a
All about modern cookware
If you hope to be a discerning buyer of copper cookware, you must know the terms for the different types
All about rivets
The way a rivet looks indicates how it was formed and fitted to the pot. I’m coming to suspect that
All about the dot
If you see a little dot in the center of a round pan, it’s a sign that it was hand-made.
All about dovetails
A dovetail — more correctly, a cramp seam — is the zig-zag brassy-yellow line running around the base and up