Derbyshire barn ironwork

Derbyshire barn ironwork

by | Jul 4, 2025 | Uncategorized

The Derbyshire farm barn is a good place to find simple handforged ironwork made by rural blacksmiths. although sometimes quite crude in its execution the door ironwork is bespoke to each job and uniquely solves the problems they encountered while creating bespoke...
Forging Section

Forging Section

by | Jun 4, 2019 | Forging

Darren Ainsworth • June 4, 2019 This is a drop down bar is made from oak and die forged mild steel, the technique was very popular in the early 13th century and is refered to as stamped ornament, in this process the metal is beaten into shaped dies to produce a...
Medieval Ironwork Techniques

Medieval Ironwork Techniques

by | Jun 4, 2019 | Ironwork

Darren Ainsworth • June 4, 2019 This grille was made by repeating a process over and over and then joining all the elements together to make a pattern called quadtrafoil. The image above shows the process where each bar was joggled,punched,split,joggled and punched...
Graveyard Ironwork

Graveyard Ironwork

by | Jul 20, 2018 | Ironwork

Darren Ainsworth • July 20, 2018 An excellent place to search for historic blacksmith made ironworks are old graveyards, one can be lucky enough to stumble over a handmade grave surround amongst the broken factory produced victorian cast iron examples, this particular...
Metal Doors

Metal Doors

by | Apr 14, 2018 | Metal

Darren Ainsworth • April 14, 2018 Sheet iron doors were very popular in the glan valley of carinthia southern Austria, they were made from recycled plowshares which were flattened out and riveted together to make these patch work doors, iron was a very expensive...