Iron and Steel, Art and Craft - and Learning by Doing

摘要

New book explores the science and art of blacksmithing, as well as the methods for executing the craftsman's vision. Modern tastes may run closer to the wisecrackers on TV's Forged in Fire than to Longfellow's The Village Blacksmith, but the idea that there is knowledge and understanding to be gained by watching a craftsman at work is apparently timeless. Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought.