Dan Neville is a graduate student at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and has taught numerous classes and workshops about forming and alloying metal. In the summer of 2014, Dan taught a semester-long class at SIUC with emphasis on mokume gane and pattern development. He first learned to create mokume gane at the age of 17.
Mokume gane is an ancient Japanese patterning technique that was developed to decorate samurai swords over 300 years ago.
