Artsmith

Studio 360 | Mar 8, 2011

Thousands of years ago people learned that if they melted a soft red dirt with limestone to draw out its impurities, the resulting metal would cool to be terribly strong. Blacksmiths could form the hot iron into a sword or a helmet, or into a chandelier. Blacksmiths who make decorative iron are known as artsmiths. Studio 360's Peter Clowney talked to Chicago artsmith Richard Pozniak and asked him to demonstrate the craft.

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