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In 500 BC pockets would not exist for the next 1700 years, pouches and bags did but locks in folders would not be invented for some while so no difference actually a fixed blade in sheath would be safer. If your knives have a tendency to slip out of their sheaths you should have that fixed. I...

I wonder ... no laws are even near similar cultural conventions and habits are very different storage was not a problem then and not really today fixed blade knife in a proper sheath is not more unsafe than a folder So citations about what?

Remember the starting point, 2500 years ago, most arguments taken from today do not apply.

So nobody has come up with a reason as to why folders originated. Don't we have any historians here? After reading through I have come to a preliminary conclusion that status and novelty might have been the reason. Never underestimate people's vanity. :)

Can't quote the last paragraph but there lies the difference, puukko has never been considered primarily a weapon it is a tool. Hundred years ago much more so than today when politicians have caught the weapon contagion from somewhere.

I don't know the UK market but I understand that Buffalo uses pile. (correct?)

Just a note that often a pile fabric is better as a mid layer than a fleece, more thickness.

Sorry, I guess I was thinking my own early primary school. ;)

Maybe they just had one spice mixture that was used on everything.

That makes sense.

You want to retain the bulk but reduce weight, the thickness of the layer beneath the outer is the main cause of insulation properties, one wants "dead air thickness".

Looks like a fairly good idea for all others except the military.

Hmmm ... the first thing is to have an outer layer of something that blocks the wind, preferably totally. After that anything that has enough thickness and stops the air moving, down if the lightest some wools next and various synthetic fleeces and piles generally heaviest. The air insulates...

The question was why folders originate in the first place 2500 years ago. Your answer in comparison to my post just shows how much peoples reactions vary in different communities, countries and apparently even in fairly short time scale. Present day reactions here are not quite as paranoid as...

I have to compare this to situation in the Finnish countryside and Lapland in the 60's most men carried puukkos and that was considered normal. Having an axe on your belt might have caused some one wondering that have you lost your puukko. So how threatening a smallish knife is seen is very...

Definitely, there are some people that accept nothing. But it still makes me wonder what was the original reason to make a knife that much more complicated, my experience is that things like that usually are not made without some reason. As far as I can think a (primitive) folder has two...

Apparently pockets in their present day form originate around 1200, various kind of purses are the alternative before that. What would be the advantage of having a knife in a purse on your belt instead of a sheath?

Not intended to be a fight between folders and more solid ones. I started wondering why some one made a folding knife? Some fast googling and apparently the oldest found is about 2500 years old. So has anyone come across why. The early ones were clearly weaker than any fixed blade tanged...

Asterix reference

WHAT, nobody has mentioned the golden sickle yet and collecting herbs at full moon ...