To a driver passing through the Temescal district in Oakland, the house with the high wooden fences looks like any other in the looming shadow of Highway 24. But a closer look reveals whimsical dragon ...

Turning rock into metal is one of the oldest crafts in human history. Watch the process of smelting iron ore and forging a primitive bloom into workable iron. I was in the women's restroom when a man ...

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 ...

GAYLORD — A rhythmic hammering is established as blacksmith George Magsig strikes and shapes the tip of a red hot steel bar on the anvil before returning it to the fiery forge for additional heating. ...

Blacksmithing has traditionally been a male dominated profession and art, but in Red Hook, an iron woman is breaking down gender norms in this craft. Marsha Trattner runs She-Weld out of her studio in ...

Archaeologists have been wowed by the early dates and the evidence, including the size of the tuyere An iron age workshop, where blacksmiths were forging metal about 2,700 years ago, has been ...

Always wanted to try blacksmithing? Now's your chance to set up a session for you and / or your friends with the one and only Milwaukee Blacksmith. Kent Knapp and his family – aka Milwaukee Blacksmith ...

While Philip Simmons remains synonymous with blacksmithing in Charleston, a new generation is seizing the trade locally and giving it a more contemporary twist in the 21st century. Aided by a heritage ...

With a leather apron draped around his neck and tied at the waist, Norm Davis slides an iron rod into the burning coals in the forge in his blacksmithing shop at his northwest Topeka home. Davis ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A pair of stone pillars and congregation of creative ironworks mark John Walter's blacksmith forge, known as Iron Eden. Lorigan Street in Bloomfield is also the road to Salvation.