By Adebesin Bukola IyaboBlacksmithing is one of humanity’s oldest crafts, and it has shaped agricultural development for centuries. Long before modern machinery arrived, the blacksmith’s forge ...

After learning about one of the oldest tool making methods — flint knapping — outside of Fort Watauga at Sycamore Shoals State Historic Site, I later traveled to the Exchange Place Fall Festival in ...

Step into the forge and watch as a vital blacksmithing tool takes shape - this side set is forged for clean shoulders, ...

Perhaps the biggest hurdle to starting a home blacksmithing operating is the forge. There’s really no way around having a forge; somehow the metal has to get hot enough to work. Although we ...

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 ...