A second Charleston college is offering its students an opportunity to learn hands-on about blacksmithing and ironwork, as interest for the historical craft continues to grow. This renewed attraction ...

In an era of invisible, cloud-based commerce, Brian’s Welding is an old-school business, full of metal and machinery. This month, the welders went even more retro, gathering around an anvil and ...

MORRISTOWN Ten people from teens to retirees spent an already hot Saturday around an 1860s forge at Historic Speedwell Saturday learning the basics of blacksmithing in an all-day master class called ...

Years ago, Shaun Williams began hammering his own armor out of cold sheet metal to wear to a Renaissance festival at Snyder Park in Fort Lauderdale. He later graduated to a blowtorch and eventually ...

Stroll around Market Square and you’re sure to spot Peter Happny’s handiwork. From the goddess Ceres atop Ceres Bakery on Penhallow Street to the Piscataqua Savings Bank sign on Pleasant Street, ...

An elective at Ontario College of Art and Design changed Jen Lipski’s life, turning her into an “accidental blacksmith.” “I went to OCAD in Toronto to become a wildlife painter, and in my last ...

Middle school students looked like they were roasting marshmallows as they clustered around a small forge filled with red hot coals to heat steel rods in a temporary blacksmithing workshop set up ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X John Frank recalls how his grandfather and father used to do their own blacksmithing out of ...

Perched on a stool behind an anvil and a 5-pound mallet, the expert blacksmith and knife maker waited for the first group of patrons who signed up for a session with the "Angry Giant." But Jason ...

In the poem The Village Blacksmith, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow offers this description of the blacksmith. “His hair is crisp and black and long, His face is like the tan. His brow is wet with honest ...