Links
Misc Websites:
German billhooks - the excellent page from Wikipedia for hippe (in German) but can be translated on-line with Google etc: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippe_(Gartenbau)
Portugese foicinhas, foices (sickles), podoa & podão (pruning hooks)
http://clientes.netvisao.pt/tipico/museu/alfaias/alfaias_foices.htm
Vitorex - Portugese edge tools - catalogue of current stock items
http://www.vitorex.eu/catalogo.php?familia_id=8
List of blacksmiths including edge tool makers,from many counties of the UK and (former) British colonies: http://blacksmiths.mygenwebs.com/index.php
Taillandiers de la Fure - French article in Terrain, No 6 March 1986, on the edge tool makers on the river Fure in Isère (near Grenoble).
http://terrain.revues.org/2895
Metal Connexion - French forum for blacksmniths and edge tool makers.
http://metal-connexion.fr/forum/forgeron-taillandier-la-forge-d-ageio-hautes-pyrenees-t314.html
Forges et Martinets - French water mills website (images of tilt hammers etc)
http://moulinafer.free.fr/Martinet.htm
German carpenter and tool collector, Christan Peglow, shows some of his collection of tools
http://hobelaxt.wordpress.com/
Bücherei des Deutschen Gartenbaues (German Horticultural Library) in Berlin - one of the custodians, Clemens Wimmer, has a special interest in the history of European billhooks.
http://www.historischegaerten.de/Gartenbaubuecherei/
Clemens has produced two excellent articles in German on billhooks - these are available from him for 6 euros each including postage.
The first, Die Häpe, was published in Zandera No 23 in 2008. The second, Zur Geschichte der Hippe, was published in Topiaria Helvetica in 2009.
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