#firecraft

• Fire steel — A small steel tool, often curved in the shape of a link or blade, used in the past, by striking it against a piece of flint (cremene), to produce sparks capable of igniting tinder or cotton. In an archaic and ethnographic sense, the piece represents a basic element of the traditional Romanian household, symbolizing the ritualistic lighting of fire, and in an extended technical sense, it can designate the central axle or supporting beam of a water or wind mill.
• Flint-related — Pertaining to the fire steel (amnar) or structurally linked to the production of fire through striking; a regional term used to describe a hard type of steel, a high-quality flint stone, or a special leather pouch in which fire-making tools were kept.