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Edgar Brandt
by Joan Kahr

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Antique and Collectibles
"...lavishly illustrated with both period and new photographs...richly presented and recorded."

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Samuel Yellin, Metalworker
by Jack Andrews

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Anvil's Ring, summer 2000
...Yellin is the king of the blacksmiths and a true inspiration to virtually anyone who has ever swung a hammer.

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Silversmithing
by William Seitz, et al

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Reviewer: A reader from Bay Area, California, USA

I highly recommend this book if you are interested in Silversmithing as a profession, or if you are just interested in the processes/procedures/tools (as I am). Well illustrated. This book if a find!

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Decorative and Sculptural Ironwork
by Dona Z. Meilach

Book Description
With the help of this unique book, all the fascinating properties of iron and other metals can be creatively explored. 52 color plates and 717 b/w photos and drawings present the ideas and examples visually. After a short history of ironwork, the author discusses the ironworking shop, forge and tools, including anvils, vises, hammers, tongs, punches, centrifugal blowers and machine tools. She presents information on building, lighting, and maintaining a fire. Forging procedures are explicitly shown: drawing out, flattening, bending, upsetting, twisting, splitting, punching and drifting, hot cutting on a hardy, and joining and finishing techniques.
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The Artist-Blacksmith's Craft
by Julius Schramm, Robert A. Ruhloff

Book Description
The Artist-Blacksmith's Craft, published in 1935 and My Life as Artist-blacksmith, published in 1941, are the literary legacy of Julius Schramm and offer a strong encouragement for renewal here in the United States just as they did during their day in Germany. This edition contains the text of both books. Schramm's words in The Artist-blacksmith's Craft speak to blacksmiths today with just as much importance as they did when he wrote them, at the age of seventy: Schramm's My Life as Artist-Blacksmith provides us with the philosophy of his craft, sharing the integrity and enthusiasm that he had for his work at the forge.

Francis Whitaker has been responsible for getting the Schramm books published; he suggested the books be translated by Robert Ruhloff and be published by SkipJack Press. Whitaker proudly carries on this tradition of blacksmithing gives us the final word on the contributions Julius Schramm:

We all took great pains to satisfy the master and in return had our own satisfaction in doing a fine job. A year with Yellin, two years with Schramm, set the pattern for the rest of my life. The pursuit of perfection.

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