Far from the throngs of the big city, the Goodwin family look almost lost in time. While fewer than 2 in 10 Americans call the countryside home, Jordan Goodwin, 30, raised rurally and homeschooled, is ...

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 Izmir’s historic Kemeralti bazaar, the Akdemir family is finding new customers for a four-generation craft.

Blacksmithing turns raw steel into useful tools with fire and hammer. In this video, a candle shaper is forged step by step using traditional techniques. Watch how simple metal transforms into a ...

Blacksmithing is one of humanity’s oldest crafts, and it has shaped agricultural development for centuries. Long before modern machinery arrived, the blacksmith’s forge supplied the tools that made ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Georgian mythology, the blacksmith is often portrayed as a magical figure endowed with superhuman strength—sometimes even as a semi-divine being. Tinatin Khomeriki Merab Maghlaperidze is one of the ...

Michael Whitmore stokes a fire in his blacksmithing forge using a bellows that he made himself using drawings in an old book. “I tell the young folks when they come in here, read as much as you can, ...

A journeyman blacksmith, Talon Cavender-Wilson melds traditional Scandinavian metal working skills with design and art from his Dakota roots and beyond. Talon Cavender-Wilson decided he wanted to ...