Carole Leroy, a professor at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, shares the fundamentals of forging in this illustrated manual that is both practical and elegant.

The Forging Manual invites readers to dive into the fascinating world of an ancestral art taught at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. A practical and artistic guide, it provides a progressive introduction to forging techniques. This book reveals the foundational skills, essential tools, and the motions that bring metal to life. The unique connection between the metal and the craftsman is captured in Carole Leroy’s superb drawings, including technical depictions of tools, sketches of machinery, and explanatory diagrams of the precise gestures of the blacksmith…