Smithing has a long history and was an important early craft, with smiths producing useful tools and items. In Slovakia, smithing traditions were influenced by Celtic practices and involved complex techniques like welding and tempering. Different types of smiths specialized in specific materials or items, such as blacksmiths working with iron, bladesmiths making knives and swords, or goldsmiths crafting jewelry. Today, artistic smithing creating decorative metalwork is also popular.

1. Smithing
Autor: Eduard Hopfer

2. Contents
 History of smithing
 Smithing in Slovakia
 Tools
 Types of smiths
 Artistic smithing
 The End
 Resources

3. History of smithing
Smithing is one of the
oldest crafts. It was
basic village craft.
Smiths were making
most of useful things
and tools.

4. Smithing in Slovakia
Smiths was following old kelt‘s traditions.
Making perfect tools was realized by
complexity techniques - welding,
damasking, tempering and more. On break
of 8-9 century there was one special village
in Slovakia – the village of smiths knife
makers.

5. Tools
In traditional manual small
industry they were using
only hand tools –
hammers and anvils,
tongs, punches, chisels.
They had forge with
sacks and shovels.
Later they were using also
mechanical tools.

6. Types of smiths
 An arrowsmith – forges arrowheads for the fletcher
 A blacksmith – works with iron and steel
 A bladesmith – forges knifes, swords and other blades
 A locksmith – works with locks
 A pewtersmith – works with pewter
 A coinsmith – works with coins and currency
 A gunsmith – forges guns
 A goldsmith – works with gold

7. Artistic smithing
Today is very popular
artistic smithing. A
man can buy forged
fence, candlesticks
or jewellery. That all
can be forged.

9. Resources
 http://www.telegraf.sk/2790-stretnutie-umeleckych-kovacov-zo-slovenska
 http://gotocarpathia.sk/tvorive-dielne-ludovych-remesiel/
 http://www.mdc.sk/stranka/oprava-vzduchovych-kanalov-v-
trubkarni/
 http://www.profimedia.sk/fotografie/kovacske-naradie/0002692173/
 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
title=Metalsmith&oldid=525233307

10. Resources
 http://www.telegraf.sk/2790-stretnutie-umeleckych-kovacov-zo-slovenska
 http://gotocarpathia.sk/tvorive-dielne-ludovych-remesiel/
 http://www.mdc.sk/stranka/oprava-vzduchovych-kanalov-v-
trubkarni/
 http://www.profimedia.sk/fotografie/kovacske-naradie/0002692173/
 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
title=Metalsmith&oldid=525233307