Historical String-Making

Making Gamut Gut Strings - Dan Larson
Making Silk Music Strings - Dan Larson
Diderot Engraving of a String Making Shop - Dan Larson
Throwing Shade at String-Makers - Adam Guggemos
German and French String-Making: Historical Differences - Adam Guggemos
Alternative String Materials: Silk, Plant, and Whalebone - Adam Guggemos
Toxic Chemicals In Historical String-Making - Adam Guggemos
String Oil in History - Adam Guggemos
[Japanese] [Video] How to Make Gut Strings (Whole Movie) - Toshiya Shinbayashi
[Video] Intangible Cultural Heritage: Making Gut Strings - Lao Yang
[Video] Cured, Hung, and Strung: Check Out How Catgut Strings are Made - WQXR - New York Public Radio
Historical Strings - Martin Shepherd
String Theory: Historical Facts About Your Violin Strings - Claire Givens Violins
A Primer on the History and Technology of Strings - Ephraim Segerman
The History of What Instrument’s Strings Are Made Out Of - Round Table Historical Fencing
The History of Unison Strings - Nippon Steel
The Frenche Chirurgerye, or All the Manualle Operations of Chirurgerye , Vvith Divers, & Sundrye Figures, and Amongst the Rest, Certayne Nuefovvnde Instrumentes, Verye Necessarye to All the Operationes of Chirurgerye. Through Laques Guillemeau, of Orleans Ordinarye Chirurgiane to the Kinge, and Sworen in the Citye of Paris. And Novv Truelye Translated out of Dutch into Englishe by A.M. - Jacques Guillemeau. Isaac Canin/Dort, 1598
An Account of a Journey Made Thro’ Part of the Low-Countries, Germany, Italy, and France - Philip Skippon. Unknown, 1732
The Use of the Chlorides of Soda and Lime - A.G. Labarraque (translated by Jacob Porter). Baldwin and Treadway/New-Haven, 1829
The Preparation of Surgical Catgut - Arthur Woodward Booth, M.D. Therapeutic Gazette - A Monthly Journal of General, Special, and Physiological Theerapeutics, Vol. XVIII, 3rd Series, Vol. X, pp. 810-819, 1894
Catgut - John Phin. Industrial Recipes, Industrial Book Co., 1913
Sutures and Ligatures - Elizabeth Selden. The American Journal of Nursing, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 491-495, 1917
The Sterilization of Catgut - Rachel Murphy. The American Journal of Nursing, Vol. 21, No. 8, pp. 564-566, 1921
Surgical Catgut - Unattributed. The British Medical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3593, pp. 918-919, 1929
[French] Le Catgut, les Ligatures et les Sutures Chirurgicales à Travers les Âges (Catgut, Ligatures and Surgical Sutures Through the Ages) - Dr. A. Fandré. Masson et cie/Paris, 1944
[PDF] The Story of Catgut - Eldred J. Holder, Ph.D., B. Pharm, Ph.C. (Edin.). Post Graduate Medical Journal, September 1949
The Technology of Cordage, Fibers and Rope - David Himmelfarb. Textile Book Publishers/New York, 1957
Manufacture of Strings in England in the Eighteenth Century - Susi Jeans. The Galpin Society Journal, Vol. 13, p. 90, 1960
[PDF] The History of Sutures - David Mackenzie. The Scottish Society of the History of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons, 1971
The Bowed Strings: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow - Carleen M. Hutchins and Marjorie Bram. Music Educators Journal, Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 20-25, 1973
Strings in the 16th and 17th Centuries - Djilda Abbott & Ephraim Segerman. The Galpin Society Journal, Vol. 27, pp. 48-73, 1974
Gut Strings - Djilda Abbott & Ephraim Segerman. Early Music, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 430-437, 1976
Historical Background to the Strings used by Catgut-Scrapers - Ephraim Segerman and Djilda Abbott. The Catgut Acoustical Society Newsletter, No. 25, pp. 24-26, 1976
Catline Strings - Ephriam Segerman and Djilda Abbott. Fellowship of Makers and Researchers of Historical Instruments Quarterly, No. 12, July 1978
A Cache of 18th-Century Strings - Albert Cohen. The Galpin Society Journal, Vol. 36, pp. 37-48, 1983
[PDF] Catline Strings Revisited - Stephen Bonta. Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, Vol. XIV, 1988
String-Making in 17th-Century Padua: An English Traveller’s Description - Ian Woodfield. The Galpin Society Journal, Vol. 41, pp. 109-112, 1988
The Making of Gut Strings in 18th-Century Paris - Stephen Bonta. The Galpin Society Journal, Vol. 52, pp. 376-386, 1999
R. R. Angerstein’s Illustrated Travel Diary, 1753-1755: Industry in England and Wales From a Swedish Perspective - Reinhold Rücker Angerstein (translated by Torsten and Peter Berg). Science Museum/London, 2001
String Theory: How Firms Develop the Latest Strings - Strings Magazine, December 2004
Roman and Neapolitan Gut Strings 1550-1950 - Patrizio Barbieri. The Galpin Society Journal, Vol. 59, pp. 147-181, 2006
The Evolution of Surgical Instruments: An Illustrated History From Ancient Times to the Twentieth Century - John Kirkup, MD, FRCS. HistoryOfScience.com, 2006
Gut Strings: A Strong Stomach for Strings - The Strad Magazine, August 2011
Gut String Makers in Nineteenth-Century London - Jenny Nex. The Galpin Society Journal, Vol. 65, pp. 131-160, 2012
[PDF] Guitar Stringing in Late Nineteenth-Century North America: The Emergence of Steel - Nicholas Pyall. The Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, Vol. XL, 2014
Needles and Suturing in the Golden Age of Piracy - PirateSurgeon.com, 2015
Four Seasons at the Chan – A Coda on Gut Strings by Bassis Curtis Daily - Alex Waterhouse-Hayward
[German] [PDF] Meisterleistungen Deutscher Instrumentenbaukunst, Bd. 8: Saitenherstellung in Markneukirchen und im Vogtland (Masterpieces of German Instrument Making, Vol. 8: String Production in Markneukirchen and in the Vogtland) - Kai Köpp, Jane Achtman, Johannes Gebauer (editors). Markneukirchen/Bern, 2019
ESR [Electron Spin Resonance] and Radiocarbon Dating of Gut Strings From Early Plucked Instruments - Sumiko Tsukamoto, Taro Takeuchi, Atsushi Tani, Yosuke Miyairi, Yusuke Yokoyama. Methods and Protocols, MDPI/Basel, 2020
[Video] George Stoppani: Gut Strings – And All it Entrails… - Jean Le Rond d’Alembert Institute Conference: Sharpening the Scientific Tools for Violin Making, October 2020
[PDF] Evolution of Suture Material – A Systemic Review - Aeliya Rukhsar, Prof. Saiyad Shah Alam, Prof. Gulamuddin Sofi. South Asian Research Journal of Nursing and Healthcare, Vol. 5, Issue 1, January 2023
The Great War, the Little String, and the Transformation of Modern Violin Playing - Mark Katz. Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 77, pp. 65-101, 2024