"A sagittis hungarorum libera nos Domine!" (Modena, 924 A.D.) - in a rough translation: "Lord, save us from the arrows of the Hungarians".
For a long time that was about the only thing that came to most Hungarians mind about Hungarian archery. No wonder, with the introduction of firearms in the 16th century, archery in Hungary disappeared completely. What was left of it was not much more than fragments of bone and some rusty arrowheads buried along with their owners bodies in the 10th century. Yet still, it seems to be enough to reconstruct and revive this long lost tradition.
The Hungarian Bowmakers today
Today in Hungary, the traditional bowmaking craftmanship is still alive. Due to handfull bowmaker masters like Kassai, Grozer, QuadRex Family and Toth.
This masters reproducing the authentical bows, found 10th centaury graves by archeologist.
This graves was found in the 1920s.Among the stirrups, sabres and other things, archeologists found long and narrow bone plates.
After understandig the design of ancient hungarian bow, this enthuastic bowmakers start to build they on personal classic bows.
Our Profile
Our store is dedicated to Traditional Archery. Specialized to Hungarian Handmade Recurve Bows and Accessories.
Customer focusing
We try to fulfill every customer wish, the customer have the possibility to specify the technical parameters of the bows, like draw weight, draw lenght, size, color, decoration, and the overall designe of the bow. Please contact us by e-mail: admin@classic-bow.com
