Not everyone thinks about the shape of kitchen cabinet handles, the design of the towel rods in the bathroom or the texture of keyhooks inside a door. But Durango blacksmith Nathaniel Winkler thinks ...

There is a ritual and subtle rhythm to Michael Murphy’s every movement as a blacksmith — in his 1800s style workspace at the Tallahassee Museum, he dances between the anvil and the bellows with tongs ...

At 2,000 degrees, iron gives in to your will. You sweat. You calculate angles. Hit it skillfully and your hunk of metal can become a twisting arm of a chair or a curlicue on a railing or even a ...

Kapsiki blacksmiths mediate symbolically between nature and culture in a variety of ways relating to agricultural production, fertility, afterlife, and social harmony. Van Beek explores the multiple ...

Members of the Appalachian Area Chapter of Blacksmiths will present an exhibition of hand-forged architectural ironwork Jan. 6-27 at the Emporium Center. The exhibition will include a variety of items ...

The Iron Age revolutionized Africa and forever altered human civilization practically and symbolically. Technologies of iron smelting and forging, which likely began on the African continent around ...

A visual reconstruction of the workshop, which was active near the start of Britain's Iron Age DigVentures Researchers have unearthed a “master blacksmith’s” Iron Age workshop—complete with forging ...