Blacksmithing

Blacksmithing articles from Anvil online. Includes interviews with people who have been in the craft for decades.

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This comprehens ive report represents a landmark in the publicatio n of medieval finds from excavation s in York. It encompasse s very large assemblage s of medieval artefacts of a wide variety of materials, including iron, non-ferrou s metal, stone, jet, amber, fired clay, glass and textile. These were recovered from four major sites in York.

Selected illustrati ons from the Mendel Hausbuch, depicting 15th and early 16th century craftsmen at work.

The illustrati ons from the Mendel and Landauer Housebooks , indexed by profession and with lists of items found in each illustrati on.

On the history of blacksmiths and tinsmiths back to the Middle Ages.

This paper seeks in the first place to give some indication of the range of these industries in a few English forests of the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, and then to describe their organizati on.

Iron was a very important commodity to the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, and those people who were lucky enough to be skilled in working it were held in high regard. The reason behind this is the versatility of iron.

I am often questioned about blacksmithing and how one gets into it. It's not terribly difficult.

The process of making and hardening your own tools.

A series of early blacksmithing images.