Metalworks! - The Blacksmith's Tale

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Metalworks! The Blacksmiths Tale

Kath Pick

Franny Moyle

Metalworks!: Episode 3: The Blacksmith's Tale

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The Blacksmith's Tale

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Episode 3: The Blacksmith's Tale

BBC Four - Metalworks!, The Blacksmith's Tale

A look at how the blacksmith created items that both served and embellished society.

A look at how blacksmiths created items that both served and embellished society, from the earliest hinges to baroque gates and mass-produced street furniture.

In a story where progress meets creative invention, this film looks at how the blacksmith created items in wrought and cast iron that both served and embellished society. From the earliest ornate hinges and doors to magnificent baroque gates and mass-produced street furniture, it reveals the mastery of metalworkers such as Jean Tijou, Robert Bakewell and John Tresilian, the designs of Robert Adam and George Gilbert Scott, and the mass marketers of the Victorian age such as the Saracen foundry. 

Treasures are drawn from all corners of the UK in a celebration of the best of British decorative ironwork.

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Series looking at three aspects of British metalworking over the centuries.

Series looking at aspects of British metalworking over the centuries, including the art of the silversmith, the history of armour and the work of the blacksmith.

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