Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1895 — Hammered Iron Work. [ARTICLE]

Hammered Iron Work.

Boston Commercial Bulletin. The popularity of black iron lamps and lanterns for the piano, the study or porch, has given impetus to thf languishing art of working in hammered iron. It is the highest typf of iron work, as well as the most beautiful, and we are glad to see it revived. The hammered iron work of the Middle Ages has been reverenced almost as a departed art. The best of this work is very expensive, but that has not prevented the production of some magnificent examfdes. The opportunity for the use of lammered iron work is large,, including gates, railings, .balconies, etc., and it would appear that once general attention was directed to this species pf artistic ornamentation the field of its application would be extensive.