![]() ![]() ![]() Town and rural blacksmiths would make less weapons, but would produce a huge amount of tools, housewares, and even trinkets. Because these products would have been sold to wealthier clients, city blacksmiths were usually more well-off than their village counterparts. Village smiths likely spent most of their time working on farming tools, household items, and nails, while city smiths would have been in charge of crafting the more intricate and specialized items like locks, jewelry, and torture devices. Castle blacksmiths were regularly commissioned with the creation and repairs of various weapons and armor.īesides the occasional weapon, blacksmiths outside of castle walls more commonly crafted farming and household tools, nails, hinges, locks, keys, jewelry, and even torture devices. Whereas castle smiths mainly created swords, daggers, lances, arrowheads, armor, shields, and other objects used in warfare, village and city blacksmiths had a much wider range of projects requested by their clients. The introduction of blacksmiths to bustling cities and isolated villages changed the way in which they interacted with their clientele and diversified the types of products they created. What Items Did Medieval Blacksmiths Make? Regardless of where blacksmiths worked, most smiths did not wander too far from their main clientele base and preferred to build their reputation in one small area. They rarely left their specific community unless they were a traveling blacksmith with the right equipment (a forge wagon was necessary for long-distance work) and they rarely would have been summoned to a castle for employment. These smiths spent most of their time close to their illustrious employers, and only strayed from the castle if there was a high demand for work in a nearby city.įor urban blacksmiths, the opposite was true. Castle smiths gained protection by working for wealthy, powerful people, and they also had the physical security of the castle walls behind which they lived and worked. Medieval blacksmiths were vital within castle boundaries, but were also found in many rural villages and settlement.īy the middle of the 12th century, however, as mining technology improved and lower-class people started using more metal objects in their everyday lives, the blacksmith migrated from the castle walls to live among the masses in villages and cities. Because iron was more scare in the early medieval period, it was mostly reserved for these items and thus, the need for blacksmiths in cities and rural villages was also low. In the early middle ages, the majority of blacksmiths worked within the walls of castles, making armor and weapons for kings, lords, and other nobles within the upper-class. Not simply an armorer for kings, blacksmiths established themselves as vital fixtures within their communities during the middle ages. ![]() In a time when the mining and smelting of iron underwent major innovations and the average person needed durable metal products that were both local and affordable, the work of blacksmiths was in high demand. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License. Many medieval smiths went through rigorous training and rose through the ranks of apprentice, journeyman, and master to become more respected and influential craftsmen. They lived and worked in castles, cities, and villages and served a wide range of people-from powerful kings to humble farmers. Medieval blacksmiths played an important role within their communities as the creators of weapons and everyday tools. ![]()
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