Pieh Tool

Taylor, Terry & Whyte, Dylon
 
Contemporary Designs from Classic Techniques

Once used to create protective garments, chain mail techniques and patterns have now been adapted for jewelry making by innovative artists. Making chain mail jewelry needs very few tools to achieve impressive results. Thirty extraordinary projects are offered here for all skill levels.

Bayless

This photographic essay records the rich legacy of the artform, as seen in Charleston's remaining ornamental wrought and cast iron examples. The photographs are listed by streets, enabling the visitor to use this book as a guide while enjoying a stroll around this beautiful historic city.

Hughes and Rowe

This extraordinary book, the product of Camberwell College of Arts in Britain, brings together hundreds of recipes and treatments previously scattered in old books and papers. Classified by color and surface finish, metal artists now have access to tested and evaluated recipes for a wide range of colored finishes. Photographs and lucid explanations document the results.  Problems with techniques are openly discussed.

If you are a committed bronze artist or crafts person and you want to get good patinas you need this book! It boasts over 1000 distinct patina formulas and an incredible bibliography.

*Note the recipes in this book are only for copper, brass, bronze, and silver.

McDonald and Jaffer

Olympic medalist Debbie McDonald and her fabulous partner, Brentina, have thrilled crowds the world over with their stunning performances. In her new book, Riding Through, Debbie describes her system for success in dressage and relates her life story:

"There is more than one reason that I call this book Riding Through. Of course, first and foremost, riding through is a dressage term, something you strive for as you attempt to get your horse on the aids and moving back-to-front. You have achieved it when everything the two of you do together is one fluid motion, the ultimate of coordination and expression, in which the horse is maximizing his assets. It's all about harmony and correctness, summing up the meaning of dressage in a single short phrase. But "riding through" has other meanings for me as well. I've learned to ride through hard times, on and off a horse, when I thought about giving up. We all have to learn about riding through, because that's the only way we will arrive at our destination, whatever it may be."

Stuart

Featuring Wrought & Cast Designs

One of the world's greatest collections of architectural ironwork is on display in the five boroughs of New York City. Author and photographer Diana Stuart captures the magnitude and impressive array of historic exterior designs in 400 color photographs, with background information and the location of each piece included in captions.

You will see iron fences, gates, newel posts, balustrades, railings, brackets, lamps, and much more. These stunning artifacts play a major role in the fabric of New York City's streetscape, and artists, designers, and ironworkers will all be inspired by the rich selection of designs found here. This book also serves as an historical record of the amazing wrought ironwork to be found in this amazing outdoor museum -- New York City.

Pedrini

Sellens

Here is the greatest assembly of hand tools ever assembled. It is a fascinating chronicle of nearly every tool ever used in North America, including ancient tools used by Native Americans; Trade tools used to create coaches, pianos, ships, and saddles; tools for harvesting farm goods, turpentine, and ice; and tools for fine bookbinding and watch repair. The tools are organized according to profession, from Beekeeper to Wheelwright, and will fascinate today's practitioners of these trades and hobbies.

Lewton-Brain

Excellent drawings of many chasing tools as well as fascinating drawings of a long-ago chasing shop depicting what the artisans are doing.

Kahr

A premier metalsmith in the early 20th century in France, Edgar Brandt (1880-1960) designed and fabricated some of the most beautiful architectural and decorative ironwork of his age. This elegant book recounts his life and work with scholarly text and photographs. Lyrical gates, doors, and tables, including his most famous screen, L'Oasis, appeared at the seminal 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs, in Paris, which gave the name Art Deco to the new style of designs. Combining motifs from ancient Egypt and classical Greek sources, floral and animals forms, and machine-inspired geometric designs, Brandt created items that became synonymous with the most lavish designs of the time. His workshop and showroom in Paris, along with a gallery that featured works by other contemporary artist-craftsmen, produced luxury goods and private commissions. Grilles, fire screens, doors, tables, andirons, vessels and lighting devices were exquisitely executed, and appear here to be studied and compared. Historians and art collectors interested in this fascinating period will find this book an invaluable reference.

Siebeneicher-Hellwig & Steigerwald

Fancy Knives has more than 290 color pictures and offers insights into the materials used in making knives, their qualities, and various working and decorating techniques. Specialists form individual fields of non-machine-made knife making tell of their handiwork.

A special chapter gives the reader instructions for making his own knife. Included is also valuable information about steel, knife blades, handle materials, decorative techniques, making sheaths and purchase and care. Stefan Steigerwald, ranks among Germany's best-known knife makers. Ernst Siebeneicher-Hellwig, teaches knife making courses and is an instructor at the Bavarian Hunting School.

Patterson

Proud Looks and Brave Attire

Of all the riches of the sixteenth-century European nobleman, none spoke more powerfully of his heroism, wealth, and taste than his armor, clothing, and weapons. Drawing on the Victoria and Albert Museum’s popular arms and armor collection—which includes the armor of such notables as Henry IV of France and Philip III of Spain--Angus Patterson looks at the suits designed to kill, protect, and impress. Here are parade suits, lavishly embossed and gilded, decorated with plumes of ostrich feathers, and draped with colorful silk sashes, as well as swords, daggers, pistols, and gunpowder flasks slung from elaborate belts. Paintings, sculpture, and beautiful new photographs—including many close-up details—bring this very particular aspect of Medieval and Renaissance fashion to life.

IND.I.A (Industria Italiano Arteferro)

A photographic collection with relevant technical instructions, this IND.I.A catalog will inspire your own unique wrought iron railings, fences and balconies. IND.I.A., based in Italy, is known as the world leader in the production and distribution of wrought iron components. Their catalogs include over 10,000 different ready to use artistic and forged items, including components for the fence and furniture industries. Their forged pieces have been developed from in-depth studies by architects with a passion for wrought iron. The designs are perfect inspirational tools for creating gates, railings, stairways, grilles, balusters, posts, partitions, window grilles, indoor and outdoor lamps, furniture, pedestrian gates and a great deal more!

Richey

All the best techniques for completing a wide variety of projects. How to select and apply finishes, which tools to use to achieve desired effects, how to color wood, and how to repair damaged finishes. The best tips from the "Methods of Work" column in Fine Woodworking over the past 25 years.

Lweton-Brain

Charles Lewton-Brain invented fold-forming, a completely new way of forming sheet metal quickly into wonderful 3-D shapes and textures, most from single sheets of metal without any soldering. Fold-forming uses sheet material, folds it, works it and then unfolds it. Many schools and workshops teach and use fold-forming, and thousands of people use parts of the system in their work. The British Museum Research Lab and the Rolex Awards for Enterprise, among others have certified that Fold-forming is new, and has not been done before in the history of metal working.

Fold forming is a new system of metal forming developed between 1980 and the present which is the concrete result of a conceptual approach to metalsmithing that emphasizes forming using the metals characteristics. It is about following what the metal likes to do.

Dunham

Simply defined, lampwork is the craft of shaping glass in a torch flame. In these pages feast your eyes upon creations by nearly a hundred of today's best lampwork artists, from the United States and around the globe. A historical introduction, demonstration sequences by featured artists, and a glossary of lampwork terminology round out this indispensable guide to lampworked glass.

This is a lavishly illustrated showcase edited by Bandhu Dunham, one of the founding members of the modern movement of artistic lampworkers. In ancient times, the glass was melted over the flame of an oil or paraffin lamp, hence the traditional name. In the last 20 years, lampworking has evolved into a thriving branch of the Studio Glass movement. Everything from tiny beads and marbles, to paperweights to huge architectural installations can be and is made using lampwork methods. This "coffee table" book showcases the work of established and emerging artists in the lampwork field, from the United States and around the globe.

Spencer

Inside are hundreds of examples showing trash transformed into fascinating sculpture, collages, furniture, jewelry, and clothing - some items functional, some not. Meet the artists who count themselves among an exclusive club of dumpster divers and garbage pickers from all over the United States. And watch as other people's junk finds new life as treasure. This book and the innovative artisans inside, will profoundly influence the way you view life and its everyday detritus.

Skinner

From once-cast_aside items, these artists have carefully crafted fine jewelry to experiential gallery installations. This book takes you on an exciting tour through their imaginations. Experience the found object movement touted by artists and groups. 83 artists from across the United States and Europe are represented in 487 original artworks. Many of them make thier work a poignant environemental message, some uncover treasure and transcendant beauty, and still others set out simply to evoke a smile. This is a delightful treasury of one-of-a-kind artworks that you'll want to study and be inspired by time and again. A listing of galleries that represent the artists shown is included.

Clark

Over 500 striking color photos display artworks produced by today's leading blacksmiths and metalsmiths. Revealed here are beautiful sculptures, created by long-established and new artists, and destined for individual homes, public parks, and other outdoor venues.

Mediaprojet

This first volume of the 2 volumes is a unique publication for its usefulness and ample coverage of this specific kind of work. It is an excellent sourcebook for smiths who are looking for ideas on producing attractive, but not highly detailed or involved gates and railings, of a more more modern look and design. The gates and railings in this first volume can be made by any experienced smith.

The book is imported from Italy and all work shown is Italian. Text is in Italian only but the importance of this book lies in the photos, not the text. If you make wrought iron gates, fences and railings, you'll find this book useful.

Mediaprojet

The second volume of this unique set showcases gates, railings and fences of a more artistic and sometimes more classical style than those shown in the first volume. However, all work shown was fabricated in the last 15 years. So while the influence may be classical in some cases, the actual work is contemporary. The work in making these gates, fences and railings is definitely more involved than for those in the first volume.  However, this may be exactly what you are looking for. It is a great sourcebook for anyone involved in the design and fabrication of artistic gates, fences and railings.