Pat Downing has perhaps the rarest job in all of San Diego: a blacksmith. The Clairemont resident and San Diego native works part time as a traditional blacksmith in Old Town. The other hours are ...

Asked what it feels like to forge iron, Robert Thomas has to pause for a moment and compose himself before plunging into a description of what, for him, is as much a passion as a livelihood. "Forging ...

PROVIDENCE — When Alaina Mahoney was a painting student at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in the late aughts, she joined a group called Iron Core. “Students figured out how to melt their own ...

After a decade of sleek, polished looks, home trends are embracing the artisan. Ironmongery, you could say, is having a moment. Like all crafts, its beginnings are ancient. Mankind first started ...

When you think of a blacksmith, you probably think back to colonial times, a rugged, Founding Father-type with rolled-up sleeves, hammering away on an anvil. But the art form is alive and well today, ...

There he was, fresh out of graduate school, with no income for materials, set up in a garage on the former family estate at the Redding border, surrounded by heirloom tools that his grandfather ...

Regular readers will recognise this as the third part of a series exploring blacksmithing for those who have perhaps always fancied having a go but have never quite known where to start. It’s written ...