The history and origin of cutlery

The word cutlery originates from the cutlers who used to make iron knives. Originally from the French, who use the Latin 'Cultellus' for knife, to coin the word, this is a Middle English word for our language and can show us how cutlery does date back quite far into the past.

Cutlery has been around for many centuries. The first noted time of use around a table was around the mid 17th century when forks were the first type of cutlery to be used formally. Even though this was the first to notice, the time to use tools have already gone through as much, much longer. Prior to this, but it was not deemed necessary, and usually not used for formal table settings.

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Cutlery was invented before 300,000 years ago by our ancestors. Initial cutlery was made of flint and stone, and was doing it for skinning and cutting the meat of animals are easier to manage. During the Iron Age, many types of tools were used and why it has invented the new technology. Then Cutleryfurther strengthened and made of stainless steel began in the 19 st Century. This was put on the map of Sheffield in 1890, as major producers of steel area in England. Sheffield cutlery is appreciated worldwide for their quality. Meanwhile, it is widespread and common in every home.

The history and origin of cutlery

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Variations of knives are knives and has been a very long time. Forks as mentioned above are relatively modern invention. They were from Italy during the 17 century has brought aEnglish traveller who saw them. At first he was ridiculed and was given the insult "furcifer" or "fork bearer". However after a while though people saw the benefits of forks, and by the mid 19th century they were being produced in masses during the industrial revolution. Forks have been used on the continent since the 11th century, and so actually came relatively late to Britain. Since their arrival though, they have obviously become very widely used, and it did not take long for us to adapt to the cutlery using way of life.

Now onto spoons. Spoons have been around since early civilization. The ancient word for spoon from the Greek and Roman was cochlea, meaning spiral shaped snail shell. In northern Europe though spoons were tended to be carved out of wood. Once again though England did not take much notice of the spoon until the mid 19th century: this was because drinking soup from bowls was thought to be very rude by then.

The history and origin of cutlery