From fingers to forks, and on to matched sets
For most of history, European diners ate with a knife and their fingers. The fork arrived slowly from the south: it was in use in Italy centuries before it caught on further north, and the English traveller Thomas Coryat was teased at home in the early 1600s for adopting the Italian habit of eating with one. By the eighteenth century the fork had become respectable, and hosts began to lay knives and forks as matching pairs instead of expecting guests to bring their own blades.
This case continues that idea: six knives and six forks with the same 12 cm black horn handles and inox bolsters, made to be laid side by side. As a knife set from Pakistan made in Sialkot, it carries an old European dining custom into a modern wooden box.
