Bodkin
What is Bodkin?
As a weapon, a bodkin is a dagger; as a hairpin, it’s an ornament with a stiletto shape; and as a sewing tool, it’s either an instrument similar to an awl for piercing holes in cloth or a long needle with a large eye and blunt tip for drawing tape, elastic, or ribbon through a casing.
Bodkin may show practicable to know that in the absence of a threading bodkin, several other tools can be substituted. Bodkin arrows complemented traditional broadhead arrows, which continued to be used, as the sharp, wide cutting surface of the broadhead caused more serious wounds and tissue damage than the bodkin arrowhead. A completely different style of bodkin is fashioned like a miniature tongs with gripping teeth on its ends to grasp the material being threaded and a neck ring to tighten and hold it in place.
The bodkin point is an uncomplicated design, probably with much in common with the era’s pike heads, and the source of both are lost in history, possibly extending back to the Roman Pilum and javelins of Antiquity. It must also be noted that modern tests have failed to shoot a bodkin arrow by reproduction plate armour. However these tests failed to take into account condition and weaknesses that would have been found in medieval armour.
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