Walking the spacious showroom floor at Artistic Iron Works, founder and co-owner Tom Prato points out design intricacies in the railing for a spiral staircase and ornamentation on grand entry doors.

A scrolled decorative piece of wrought iron fashioned by Peter Simmons, a formerly enslaved blacksmith. The black iron is scrolled into an S shape with the top and bottom scrolled in the same ...

The difference between wrought and cast iron is straightforward: Cast iron has been melted, poured into a mold and allowed to cool. Wrought iron has been heated and worked with tools. (FYI, the term ...