To a driver passing through the Temescal district in Oakland, the house with the high wooden fences looks like any other in the looming shadow of Highway 24. But a closer look reveals whimsical dragon ...

From pumping iron at the gym to the superhero adventures of Iron Man, the symbolic use of iron in American culture today is pretty much limited to a single theme. Brute strength, perhaps reflecting ...

Back in the 18th and early 19th Centuries, many wrought-iron objects such as cooking implements and lighting devices were beautifully embellished with highly decorative designs to show off the ...

For more than two millennia, ironworking has shaped African cultures in the most fundamental ways. Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths reveals the history of invention and technical ...

At 2,000 degrees, iron gives in to your will. You sweat. You calculate angles. Hit it skillfully and your hunk of metal can become a twisting arm of a chair or a curlicue on a railing or even a ...

The steel in a 1940s truck frame would make modern welders stop and stare.

A visual reconstruction of the workshop, which was active near the start of Britain's Iron Age DigVentures Researchers have unearthed a “master blacksmith’s” Iron Age workshop—complete with forging ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) ALGERIAN ARTIST, WALID TRIBECHE, SAYING: "My beginnings were in ordinary technical blacksmithing. With time and considering that iron is an expensive material, I wanted to make ...

Archaeologists have uncovered rare evidence of an Iron Age blacksmith's workshop that was in use around 2,700 years ago. The remains were unearthed by a team from DigVentures, a social enterprise ...

Kent Knapp started blacksmithing at the age of 19. He apprenticed under a master blacksmith for a few years, but then moved to New Orleans with his wife and children, where he was unable to find a ...