PROVIDENCE — When Alaina Mahoney was a painting student at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in the late aughts, she joined a group called Iron Core. “Students figured out how to melt their own ...

No plastic. No shortcuts. Just fire, steel, and precision. Watch a solid bar transformed into a hollow punch built to outlast anything from the hardware store. This is craftsmanship most factories can ...

Have you found a blacksmith hammer in the attic? Are you wondering what to do with it? If you're the crafty type, you could use this tool and others to craft items from wrought iron. Blacksmiths still ...

Asked what it feels like to forge iron, Robert Thomas has to pause for a moment and compose himself before plunging into a description of what, for him, is as much a passion as a livelihood. "Forging ...