Flurries of sparks and intense heat don’t seem to faze the blacksmith apprentices of Lizama’s Forge. Each one looks calm as they focus on their tasks. Sean Lizama, the son of master blacksmith Frank ...

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 ...

A 21-year-old who shunned university to forge a career as a traditional blacksmith while he was still a teenager is hoping to inspire more young people into the ancient trade. Jay Cardall took up the ...

Dilapidated factory buildings are the most obvious remnants of Oakland’s industrial past, but step inside the unassuming warehouses along Adeline Street and you’ll feel like you’re entering Thomas ...

Robert Galbraith from Downpatrick opened Watershed Forge in October 2021. The former engineer left his previous industry to participate in the NI Heritage Skills Programme, now the All-Ireland ...

Spijk Selby often thinks about the lasting impact of the objects he’s making. “It’s a mystic craft. I’m thinking about how my great-grandkids are going to feel about this knife — will it sit in a ...

Orange blacksmith Jason Stimps, 37, works in a field known for its physicality as much as for its artistic outcomes. His tools include a thundering hydraulic press, a 750-pound anvil, and fire. But ...

In the Fawn Grove workshop he built by hand, using materials from an old oak tree and a house built in the 1860s, Derick Kemper forges steel and iron into works of art. The 34-year-old is a ...

A new exhibit from the Guam Council on the Arts and Humanities Agency allows visitors to peer hundreds of years in the past while standing firmly in the present. “Traditional Blacksmith Exhibit,” ...

Blacksmithing is one of the oldest professions practicing in the city of Zavareh, which, despite the entry of industry into this field, is still standing. Making shovels, skewers, tripods, scythes, ...

Flurries of sparks and intense heat don’t seem to faze the blacksmith apprentices of Lizama’s Forge. Each one looks calm as they focus on their tasks. Sean Lizama, the son of master blacksmith Frank ...