It’s rare to encounter a blacksmith outside of books and movies these days. But in the outskirts of Gakoromone market in Meru lives one. Jediel Kimathi, 55, runs his business from an unassuming shack ...

TACOMA, Wash. -- It's a sound that's echoed through the centuries since antiquity. It's the sound Vulcan made at his forge under Mount Etna. It's the sound memorialized in Longfellow's "The Village ...

Kent Knapp is modern-day blacksmith with a passion for the craft of the past and as a 34-year-old, he makes his living bending and shaping iron from his forge, Ornamental Ironworks, on the west end of ...

By Akintunde OloyedeBlacksmithing is one of the oldest and most respected traditional crafts in Nigeria. For centuries, blacksmiths have played a vital role in the economic, social, and cultural ...