Cutlery Cutlery Cutlery includes any hand implement used in preparing, serving, and especially eating food in Western culture. A person who makes or sells cutlery is called a cutler. The city of Sheffield in England has been famous for the production of cutlery since the 17th century and a train – the "Master Cutler" – running from Sheffield to London was named after the industry. Cutlery is more usually known as silverware or flatware in the United States, where "cutlery" usually means knives and related cutting instruments. Although the term "silverware" is used irrespective of the material composition of the utensils,
Messer (weapon) Landsknecht. There is a typology created by James G. Elmslie for messers and falchions similar to the Oakeshott typology based on ongoing research. Messer are characterized by their single-edged blades. The lengths and shapes of the blade can vary greatly. Messer blades can be straight or curved. Extant examples of langes messer seem to have an overall length of with a blade, and a weight between . The defining characteristic of messer is their hilt construction. Quite notable in its construction was the attachment of blade to the hilt via a slab tang sandwiched between two wooden grip plates that