The sweltering heat had finally moved on and Giant Tick season was coming to a close (not kidding, they are HUGE here), when I decided to fire up my hacked together blacksmith forge made out of an old ...

Blacksmiths in the South have long embedded West African symbolism into gates, rails, and window bars, proof that the craft ...

Adam's Forge is a dark, high-ceilinged warehouse space in Los Angeles. It's set up with anvils, medieval-looking tools and black ovens that breathe fire. Recently, about a dozen people gathered for an ...

In Izmir’s historic Kemeralti bazaar, the Akdemir family is finding new customers for a four-generation craft.

Blacksmiths were the high technologists of fabrication up until the industrial revolution gained momentum. At its core, this is the art and science of making any needed tool or mechanism out of metal.

Young blacksmith Conor Murray from Kelferagh outside Kilkee on the Loop Head peninsula is opening his forge for Culture Night to show how he is using the traditional skills of the trade which stretch ...

Forging a Norwegian hewing axe. This is my first attempt at making one of these large hewing axes, using a book from Norway ...