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 ...

Jeffrey Funk forges a piece of steel atop an anvil inside his workshop at the New Agrarian School in Bigfork on Tuesday, Nov. 12. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) Jeffrey Funk forges a piece of steel ...

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 ...

Blacksmithing has become a craft of the past, but Baltimore?s streets still showcase the charm of wrought iron due to a family-owned business committed to tradition. G. Krug and Sons, the oldest ...

James Anderson’s Blacksmith Shop in Colonial Williamsburg is a world of activity. With forges fired up, hammers hit away at metal, hand-held files grind down fine detail work and sunlight seeps ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jeffrey Funk forges a piece of iron at his workshop in Bigfork on Wednesday, Nov. 5. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) A rod of wrought iron glowed red hot in Jeffrey Funk’s forge at his shop near Echo ...

Ten years ago Benjamin Young was found in a field trampled by cows and close to death. He recalls fixing a water trough at a dairy farm that day before riding off to the next job on a motorcycle. The ...

There is a ritual and subtle rhythm to Michael Murphy’s every movement as a blacksmith — in his 1800s style workspace at the Tallahassee Museum, he dances between the anvil and the bellows with tongs ...

At G. Krug & Son Inc., the iron works on Saratoga Street, the new is almost indistinguishable from the old. Custom-made iron window grills, railings and other products are made almost the same way as ...