Humans have been working with metal for millennia, and Angelenos are still practicing the craft, thanks in part to Adam’s Forge. Founded in 2002 in memory of artist and blacksmith Adam Leventhal, the ...
The village smithy celebrated in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1840 poem about blacksmiths glows again in Washington-area workshops lit by flaming forges. Blacksmithing is enjoying a revival as ...
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.
Inside an 1844 stone dairy farm building, working in a well-organized workshop with two different types of forges, a variety of tools and an anvil in the dead center of the room, is StormCloak Forge's ...