Wrough-iron

The wrought iron term is applied to the works of ironwork carried out with the hammer on the anvil. The work of ironwork includes the forging mill, hammering, the welding, torsion, the painting and the patina of iron. Metal is worked hot with coal or gas; fire or water being employed to modify the ductility of metal.

The wrought iron is the very pure iron shape intended for the trade, it is characterized by a low carbon content, it is hard, malleable and can be easily mixed with other metals.

The activity of blacksmith appeared at the same time as the discovery of the work of metals, it became a trade with whole share as the people expressed their needs; to have objects more wear resistant and varied: mechanical tools, weapons, parts, grids, keys, jewels, etc

It is a difficult work made in the respect of the technics. The wrought iron is used since thousands of years. Completely impregnated of its Spanish origin, the wrought iron respects only seldom the laws of the regulating layouts to which all the other disciplines are impregnated,

The wrought iron can integrate in a modern interior as well as in an authentic interior. Thus it is present in the daily newspaper of the Morrocans, it is in the living rooms, the dining rooms, the bedrooms and in the terraces around a swimming pool or a garden. The blacksmith works it until giving a single identity to each part.

The industrial processes made it possible to produce wrought iron in great quantity what allowed to extend its use to great structures. It is generally used for the realization of the gates, barriers, the protective grilles of windows, slopes of staircases, beds, cupboards, tables, chairs, armchairs, stools and other accessories like, candlesticks, umbrella.

Carried by the request, of many artists blacksmiths are invest in the work of iron to leave free their imagination and to create infinite objects of decoration and pieces of furniture having their own design while competing of beauty.

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