Well we have made it into the New Year. Made by the Forge’s New Years resolutions are displayed on our noticeboard in our kitchen for all to see and for us to do! We are also thrilled to be supporting the Suffolk Wildlife Trust in their plight to save and protect the Dormouse. Made...
We are delighted to have updated our website with some beautiful photographs taken by the local professional photographer Bruce Head. We gave Bruce the task of show casing our curtain poles and finials so that our pictures show the detail and quality of our products. He has been so clever with his lense that...
We are delighted to say that the majority of the hundreds of trees we planted early on this year 2012 are looking very healthy and strong. We pledge that every product sold has one tree planted to offset CO2 and to give a little back to our wonderful environment.
Most of our ironwork is finished in the traditional way. While the metal is still hot we seal it with a natural beeswax. This gives the iron a beautiful finish. We sourced this particular beeswax from near Needham Market about 4 miles from home. The bee keeper has over 15 hives and this must...
Janet our fabric product designer has just finished working on these attractive door stops. She has been truly economical with the remnants of our bespoke hessian sacks she uses when making our fabulous notice boards. Not wanting to waste any of the wonderful old sack cloth Janet has created these useful door stops ideal...
Due to our products evolving and growing we felt we needed to update some of our images. We feel that when choosing a product online our clients should have the best possible imagery to show clearly the quality of our beautiful products. So we booked a photo shoot with Bruce Head a renowned and...
The anvil in our forge gets daily use. Sometimes it is used for making shoes and sometimes for curtain pole finials or brackets. We bought it several years ago from a farmer who acquired it at an auction. It originally sat in the blacksmiths shop at Shrubland Hall in Suffolk which was built in...
Today I am concentrating on getting all the horses and ponies shod with new shoes as the weather is on the change and it is meant to be very very wet. Tomorrow I intend to be inside my forge with the fire lit making some bespoke ironwork in the cosy and warm.
I arrived home this evening from the forge to hear the familiar sound of Swallow’s being fed. We get so use to them being around during the summer that we almost go deaf to the sound, but this time I stopped and looked. It seemed rather late in the year for Swallow’s. Surely they...
Made by the Forge’s Notice Boards are hand made by Janet from old hessian sacks that have been up cycled to become beautiful boards. These sacks are fast becoming extinct because animal feed and grains are contained in plastic or paper sacks nowadays. We do have a few left and they are available to purchase online again....