What is an Andabata?

Andabata (a word possibly adopted into Latin from the Gaulish) is a type of gladiator who fought blindfolded or wearing a helmet with no eye slits.

For us, this name represents how people, whether in the past, present, or future, must approach history; not out of ignorance or lack of knowledge, but because nothing learned or discovered can ever replicate what it would have meant to truly witness many historical events firsthand.

An Andabata could know technique, but even if they were the best gladiator in Rome, they were still fighting blind.

The purpose of our art is not mimicry of artisans long since dead but a modern celebration of the beauty, symbolism, and craftsmanship they left behind, interpreted through contemporary hands and living eyes. We do not pretend to recreate the past; we are inspired and moved by it, and we channel that into pieces made for the world we inhabit now.