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For a history, see Wire-Drawing in A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins by Johann Beckmann. See also Wire Drawing in Antiquity (American Journal of Archaeology), Roman Chain-Mail: Experiments to Reproduce the Techniques of Manufacture (Britannia), and The history and evolution of wiredrawing techniques (JOM: Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society).
- A draw plate and another draw plate from the Mastermyr find, 9th century
- Drawplate from 10th century Norway
- Wire-drawing as described in On Divers Arts, 12th century
- Drawplate from Whithorn, late Middle Ages
The even draught of the wyre drawer maketh the wyre to ben even and supple werchynge, and if he stynted in his draught the wyre breaketh a sonder. The Testament of Love, Book 3, ll. 872-874 - Wire-drawers in the Mendel Hausbuch:
Gorg (c. 1425)
Dyetrich Schockentzieher (c. 1425),
Partholomeus Wintter (1510),
Eberhard Peu… (1529),
Pernhart Eberlein (1533),
Steffan Guttpier (1577),
Friderich Sailer (1585),
Clement Pröll (1601)
- St. Eligius in his Workshop, c. 1450
- The Wire-Drawing Mill by Albrecht Dürer, c. 1489
- Two wire-drawing procedures: drawing with a heavy capstan with a windlass, and the other is with a little drum worked by hand (fol. 140r), and a wire-drawing operation with a waterwheel (fol. 140v), De la pirotechnia by Vannoccio Biringuccio, 1540
- Peter Praun, Landauer Hausbuch (Amb. 279.2, fol. 36r), 1547
- The Wire-Drawer, Das Ständebuch, 1568
- The Goldsmith's Shop by Étienne Delaune, 1576
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