A misnomer for forged crucible steel with an internal pattern of carbides produced by the result of thermo-mechanical treatment. Although this decorative steel was sold thorough Damascus, and the value of the artefacts made of crucible steel was enhance there by the addition of gilt decoration, there is no evidence for it production at Damascus. The term has been used for both self-patterning crucible steels (watered-silk) and pattern-welded steels and has lead to considerable confusion in the older literature on the subject. In the opinion of the author (CJS) this name should no longer be used due to the past confusion.