A new forging project gets underway as raw steel is shaped and prepared using traditional blacksmithing techniques and ...

July 21, 2025 at 7:15 a.m. EDT44 minutes ago Beatrix Lockwood spoke to Caitlin Morris. Illustrations by Maya Scarpa for The Washington Post. Caitlin Morris is the owner of Ms. Caitlin’s School of ...

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.

In this video, Nils and Nicholas Erb forge a traditional 1700's Swedish Timber Bila, also known as a Hewing axe. The process showcases traditional blacksmithing techniques and the challenges of ...

If you ever wanted to learn about blacksmithing, Samuel Dembitsky is your man. “If you want to know something, start asking questions,” the tall elderly man with a burly mustache quipped. “And if I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gulf Coast Blacksmith Association president Jared Kattengell of New Orleans works in his shop, heating and hammering metal.

When Nicolas Wicks walked into a blacksmith's shop in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2011, he didn't know the visit would shape the rest of his life. As an American college student majoring in ecological ...

A nonprofit in Fredericksburg, Virginia, has found a unique way to support veterans through blacksmithing — an age-old craft using iron and steel. Steve Hotz founded Black Horse Forge after using ...

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The village smithy celebrated in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1840 poem about blacksmiths glows again in Washington-area workshops lit by flaming forges. Blacksmithing is enjoying a revival as ...

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