Artistic forging is one of the most sophisticated ways to decorate interiors and exteriors. It requires a lot of skill and time. But such products distinguished by incredible nobility and elegance. Particular attention should be paid forged vine. Its features include a unique aesthetic that connects natural nature with cold metal.
The greatest value comes from products and elements made using the hot method. Ornaments created by the hands of blacksmiths turn out to be inimitable and unique.
Metal elements of interesting texture: grapes and leaves
Elements of climbing metal grapes are considered indispensable attributes in classic interiors . These products with decorative texture not only imitate floral patterns, but also have artistic value . To fully imitate living shoots, after forging, the vine is twisted into various bends from rings.
Then the drawings with a variety of leaves and berries come to life before our eyes. To create a unified composition on various products, craftsmen use not only the vine, but also separately berries, clusters and leaves .
Where is it used, for decorating which products, drawings
Decors with vines are found in the manufacture and decoration of various products :
- railing;
- gate;
- doors;
- arches;
- gazebos;
- window grilles;
- fences, gates;
- fireplaces;
- stairs
This is not the entire list where forging in the form of a grapevine is used. Below are the most popular products that are most often decorated with this ornament.
Railings and fences
Thanks to the variety of ornaments of metal railings and fences, you can combine different styles of interiors and exteriors. All this together provides a favorable contemplation of aesthetics.
Vine decor with symmetrical repeating bends and smoothly curved lines is often found in classical styles, when decorating railings and stair railings.
Grilles for windows, for fireplaces and sets for it
Forged window bars perform not only a protective role, but also a decorative one . If you want to make the exterior unique and inimitable, then be sure to pay attention to the graceful shapes of the grape vines.
Forged trellises with grapes, vines and leaves. Hephaestus Photos
This ornament fits harmoniously into the classic exterior and is its main decoration. A forged lattice with vines adds a special atmosphere of warmth and homeliness to the façade of the house.
When choosing a fireplace grate and sets for it in the living room, you should pay attention to the vine ornament, which looks like a real plant. Such products fill the house with a special atmosphere of the Middle Ages . The fireplace mantle is also beautifully decorated with separately purchased decorative ornaments depicting leaves and grapes.
Front garden fences and more, gates and wickets
To protect your site from uninvited guests and add an original detail to your landscape, you should think about a metal structure with beautiful decorative elements. With such a structure, your garden and flower beds are always visible to everyone, people admire them.
To make a fence in the classicism style, it is worth creating a holistic and balanced composition. Here you can experiment with peaks on top, complemented by grapevine wreaths .
You can diversify the design of the fence with intricate curls of complex shapes. Believe me, it will simply be impossible to take your eyes off such a work of art.
An excellent solution for providing a closed fence structure is to plant a hedge. They give the products a sense of unity with nature and protect your yard from prying eyes.
Gate, wicket and fence with grapes, vines and leaves. Photo Iron Age
When arranging a site with a wrought-iron fence for the front garden, you must immediately order the same gate and wicket to create a unified style.
Gazebos
A wrought-iron gazebo, braided with graceful vines, is a real decoration of any personal plot . With such a structure you can welcome guests outdoors, drink tea in the mornings and evenings, and relax in the fresh air. These products delight owners with their delicacy, sophistication and extraordinary beauty .
Gazebo with forged vine, grapes and leaves. Photo KovArt
Doors
Humanity owes a lot to the Renaissance era. Including the opportunity to enjoy the splendor of doors decorated with grape vines. Intricate spirals and curls, clusters and petals turn the metal into a real work of art. Wrought iron front doors with simple scrollwork are a wonderful decoration for any classic exterior.
Doors with vines, grapes, leaves, shoots. Photo Alois
Hangers
When ordering a forged product with an ornament, the basic style of the house is always taken into account. Although forging is in harmony with almost all trends and various finishing materials, the best solution is to install a hanger with grape vines in the Renaissance style in the hallway. Such products look elegant, light and beautiful.
Forged hanger with vine and leaves. Citadel Photos
Stairs
True masters of their craft design and produce stairs with forged elements that satisfy the needs of any client. Antique- style products are popular bringing a certain mystery and antiquity into the house.
Wrought iron spiral staircase with vines on the railing. Photo Rich
They are decorated with curls, vines and other ornaments. A forged staircase with such patterns is a real decoration of the hall.
Partitions
Forged partitions are used for proper zoning of premises. Metal products bring special uniqueness to the interior. They are universal and fit almost any style.
Fragment of a forged partition with a vine, grapes, leaves, shoots. Photo Metal forging 24
a wrought iron partition with vine elements in a spacious and bright room, highlighting a certain part of the room if desired. Such products are found not only in apartments and houses, but also in theaters, cafes, restaurants and other public places.
Swing
The advantages of a forged swing with vine decor include:
- high performance;
- multifunctionality;
- decorativeness.
Such products not only perfectly decorate any garden plot, but they can be used to spend your leisure time in the fresh air in a fun and comfortable way.
Forged swing with a canopy, decorated with vines and grapes. Kurdalagon Photos
True professionals in their field embody any customer wishes into reality and give the product an original appearance.
Braziers
For those who like to relax in nature and barbecue, you should pay attention to forged barbecues. They are not only a functional element, but also an aesthetic decoration of the site. Metal barbecues are divided into :
- mobile;
- stationary.
Each individual option has its own advantages.
We invite you to pay attention to the barbecues, where the legs are made in the shape of curls and decorated with vine ornaments. Also, the sides of the product or the entire structure are decorated with forging elements.
Pillars
Forged pillars are used in the manufacture of stairs. It is they who give the structure rigidity. These metal products come in different shapes, designs and sizes. They are decorated with a vine with iron bunches of berries hanging down and look especially beautiful in the interior.
Furniture: tables and chairs, beds, sofas
As for metal furniture with forged elements, it fills the house with a special atmosphere of medieval castles. Most often, people place forged tables, chairs, sofas, beds and other furniture items in their home. They are in harmony with classic notes and, as a rule, are decorated with interesting curls, petals, bunches and vines.
Forged bench with grapevine, grapes, leaves, shoots. Photo Favorite
Porch, canopies and awnings
To decorate your home with an elegant, decorative and functional metal canopy, you should pay attention to the grapevine ornament.
The variety of visors provided on our website does not leave anyone indifferent. They can be arched, round, gable, corner, or on pillars. The porch is also harmoniously decorated with vines.
Arches and pergolas
To attract attention to the garden plot, it is recommended to install a wrought-iron pergola or arch. These products can be braided with climbing plants. Together with living vegetation, the noble metal grape vine looks especially beautiful and natural.
Forged arch with a vine, leaves and shoots, bunches of grapes. Photo by PE Kolesnik
Patterns and ornaments in the form of interior decorations
In addition to whole forged items, you can separately purchase ready-made decorative elements: leaves, curls, berries and grape vines. With them you will have the opportunity to create unique and inimitable patterns and ornaments designed to decorate various objects.
Forged vines of various diameters. Photo Center-Kovka
Forged grapes artistic forging of grapes photo
Making forged grapes with your own hands, photo of a grape storm made of metal
In the artistic forging of metal, there are some favorite solutions that are not very new ideas, but have passed the serious test of time. A classic example of such established stylistic options for decorative metal products can be considered forged grapes.
It belongs to the plant style of forging and is usually used to decorate products and household structures together with such forged elements as: metal leaves, iron vines, spiral metal grape tendrils, steel vines and variously shaped twigs made of blacksmith-forged iron. You can see an interesting photo in which you can easily see all the “spare parts” of vegetable forging with grape motifs.
The product is assembled into a finished composition and is a fragment of a forged fireplace set . I think this is a very beautiful photograph depicting artistic forging of such a style as the classical style with iron plants.
What does vegetable hodgepodge look like?
Photo of forged railings with metal grapes, bunch, vine, tendrils photo
All these decorative elements and forged parts fit very well together, easily assembled into a forging pattern that is extremely versatile and has simply fantastic flexibility. The term flexibility, in this case, is used in a figurative sense, meaning the ease of adapting an artistic solution to a wide range of shapes, sizes and dimensions of metal structures.
Let me explain in more human language.
Floral style of forging with grapes can be used almost everywhere without any problems: decorating gates, fences, gates, railings, stairs, balconies, fireplaces, window grilles, gazebos, furniture, garden benches, pergolas, lanterns, lamps, canopies, canopies and so on . It is difficult to come up with a decorative metal structure where forged grapes could not be used for design.
As an example, I want to show a photograph illustrating an example of using iron grapes to decorate a staircase, or rather in a sketch of a forged railing with bunches of grapes. Let's look at a beautiful photo of artistic forging of a railing for a staircase in a private house.
We manufacture and install railings for stairs, balcony railings, porch railings, fences , gates , wickets, gazebos, furniture, fireplace sets , garden benches, chandeliers, lamps, lanterns, pergolas and stands for flowers with grapes. How to contact us is indicated on the website.
Where can you see metal forging of grapes in the photo?
Photo of forged grapes. The forged grapes are painted with hammer enamel - a beautiful picture of the classic style of metal forging.
Usually, iron grapes can be seen in photographs posted on artistic forging websites. All blacksmiths of the classical school must master the technology of making metal grapes from forged parts.
Our website for artistic metal forging in Dnepropetrovsk is no exception. We have placed our works in the text of this article in the form of small miniatures. Each picture of an iron grape is clickable, that is, it is enlarged to view the image of forged elements in a large size.
On my own behalf, I can add that these are very beautiful photos of artistic metal forging, photographs of the author’s hand-forged works in the best forge in Dnepropetrovsk.
Seeing excellent photographs of forged elements and decorative details, which are essentially small sculptures that emerged from under the hammer and anvil of an experienced craftsman, is in itself a pleasant pastime.
How to paint grapes?
Any decorative metal structures must be painted. On the street, paint will protect the iron from corrosion, but in the interior we do not use such durable paints, but use beautiful decorative coatings. What is the best way to paint iron grapes? Painting artistic forging products is a delicate matter. Especially if it is handmade for design.
Blacksmithing in Dnepropetrovsk usually practices painting forged grapes with patina. Using blacksmith's patina for painting, you can make copper grapes, bronze, gold, silver with your own hands.
A relatively rare way to paint iron grapes is to cover grapes with hammer enamel or powder paint. You can see what grapes made of metal painted with powder paint look like by looking at the photo - how to paint grapes.
Artistic forging of grapes - painting leaves with patina photo
Patination of artistic forging products allows you to achieve other visual effects and, in my opinion, is better suited for beautiful painting of plant-style elements.
Look at the photo where you can see an example of patination, covering a grape leaf with patina. Compare with the impression that hammer enamel produces on similar parts of similar size and shape.
This opportunity doesn't come around often.
Buy metal grapes and related forged elements of plant style
You already know where to buy forged grapes. Since we are now on the website of the blacksmith workshop in Dnepropetrovsk, you can contact us regarding production, purchase, price, cost and other issues. Logical?
There are two options for buying steel grapes from a forge.
The first is that forged grape bunches are sold as separate, independent elements of iron design. Designed for making artistic forging products with your own hands and attached to structures using conventional welding.
Image in the photo: iron grapes artistic forging bottle holder
The second is to order a finished metal product , fully functional, instructing the blacksmith to decorate it himself with bunches of forged grapes, including them in the sketch of the iron design in the best possible way.
The intermediate stage of cooperation with the buyer of forged metal grapes is the approval of a sketch of forging in a floral style.
A very convenient option, you receive a completely finished product of classic hand forging in a floral style, taking into account your wishes during the manufacturing process.
How to make grapes from metal with your own hands?
The technology for making forged grapes with your own hands at home is relatively simple. The stumbling block is usually ordinary balls. In a forge, a master solves this issue easily, thanks to the use of a forge hammer and a special stamp.
He heats the iron rod to a bright red color and, with strong blows of the hammer on the stamp, chops off pieces of metal, each of which immediately takes on the characteristic shape of a grape.
When making a bunch of grapes, several stamps are used, which allow you to assemble a bunch with your own hands, not from identical iron berries - this is not very beautiful, but by combining grapes of different shapes and sizes. Which then gives the product with grape forging a more natural look.
If there is no forge, forge and hammer?
If you do not have a home forge or a mini forge in a private house, then in order to make grapes from metal you have to use ready-made iron balls.
Where can I get balls for making grapes from iron with my own hands at home? The source of metal balls is simple and original - these are bearings.
Follow the rule - it is best to place balls of not the same size in one bunch of grapes, but at least two, preferably three, diameters.
Assembling a metal grape thunderstorm
The idea of assembling the balls and forming an iron grape thunderstorm is to not try to weld the balls together. With this method of making grapes from metal, in any case, unsightly and very noticeable welds, spots, drops, and splashes are obtained.
Intermediate operation
To make a bunch of forged grapes, first a piece of an iron rod, quite thin, is welded to each ball; it is better to take wire. When forming a bunch, it is not the balls themselves that are welded, but their wire tails.
This allows you to get a clean and neat surface of a bunch of forged grapes, hide the welded joints inside, making them invisible to the viewer.
Who will only have to look at a very beautiful vegetable forging product made by you with your own hands at home.
Where to attach a bunch of grapes made of forged metal
Photography technology for making grapes, artistic forging of plants from metal. Forge in Dnepropetrovsk photo.
Now the last question. Well, we were able to learn how to make forged grapes, select the correct diameter of the balls, and mastered the technology of assembling the product.
What's next? Where to secure a bunch of forged grapes? This is where we remember those related decorative metal parts and forging elements that harmonize well with iron grapes.
It is best to attach metal grape bunches by welding through wire tails, directly to a forged vine, made in advance from a metal rod of a suitable diameter in proportion. We look at the photo of forged grapes and iron vines.
Artistic and cold forging
There are two ways to make a vine ornament: hot or cold forging.
Hot forging is manual and painstaking work. It makes the products exclusive and unique. When working manually, it is necessary to use various tools and devices.
But products made by cold forging are more related to stamping. They are not so bright and are not able to convey all the naturalness of vegetation.
Styles: modern, baroque
Forged vine decor has found wide application in the Art Nouveau and Baroque . The first direction is characterized by rounded lines and floral patterns .
Forged stair railings with grapes, vines, leaves and shoots in Art Nouveau style. Photo Iron Age
The Art Nouveau vine is a fundamental motif. This combination looks very attractive. Also, the fancy grape lines of the vine fit perfectly into the Baroque, Classicism, Rococo styles and bring them closer to nature. We wrote more about forging styles in modern products in another article.
Reference. Photos of forged grapevines decorating various products and designs are presented in a separate section of our gallery. Below, for clarity, we present a video with a slideshow of pictures from there.
How to do it yourself
Making a homemade bunch of grapes with your own hands is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance. To do this, it is recommended to purchase separate decorative forged elements: vines, leaves, grapes.
Reference. Companies offering ready-made elements are presented in the “Where to buy forged elements” section.
In addition, you can form these elements yourself from prepared metal:
- A rod is taken and rolled on a forging machine through rollers.
- Relief is applied using plating .
- After this procedure, cracks and dents , which will imitate bark. Then the rod rotates as the performer wishes.
- To apply a relief to it, it is necessary to crimp two pieces of spring.
- The relief is applied to the plates with a chisel, after heating them to the desired temperature.
- Now you should heat the rod to a temperature of 100 degrees and pull it through the plates , hitting it with a hammer.
- To give the vine an aesthetic appearance, a corresponding pattern is applied to its surface. Filling it manually on your own is quite difficult. Therefore it is better to use a matrix . It is firmly attached to the anvil, and the workpiece is heated in the oven until red hot.
- Next, the product is placed in the device and tapped strongly with a hammer. You can stuff the vine in the same place several times. This will not harm the ornament. The procedure is performed many times in a row until the metal surface is covered with characteristic grooves.
- After applying notches to the furrow, it is bent. To do this, the metal is heated, and you can do this on a horn.
- Painting the forging ensures a presentable appearance and a long service life.
Before starting work, it is recommended to acquire the appropriate knowledge and skills:
- master forging operations or
- undergo training in blacksmithing at an educational institution, independently, at master classes.
In addition, you should have at least a small list of equipment and tools available.
Clear and detailed instructions for forging a grapevine with your own hands with photos and video materials are presented in a separate article.
Technology for making forged leaves
Forging grape leaves is an extremely exciting and truly creative activity. Since nature contains amazing plants of the most varied shapes and sizes, you can be absolutely free to give the leaves the most bizarre shapes. To do this, you need to follow some rules and technological recommendations.
The stages of forging grape leaves are as follows:
- Preparing templates from which you will make individual copies. Templates are prepared according to sketches.
- Before the forging process, the sketch is drawn using dot markings with a special drawing needle. This nuance is very important, because you need a natural look and appropriate shape of the products.
- The contour of a grape leaf is created using a thin welding wire: it is bent exactly along the contour, then aligned to apply markings to the axis.
- Carefully drawing the outline of the picture is the next step, as a result of which you get half of the required template. The sketch needs to be bent along the axis to mark the second half of the drawing. You will end up with a great metal template for creating forged leaves.
- With this template, you apply a design to a metal plate using a needle along the edges of the outline. The sheet is then cut down.
- The veining is also applied using a needle. But it is better to do this using the minting technique or a special method of corrugation.
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Where to buy, order
If you want to purchase individual decorative forged elements or order ready-made forged products , check out our catalog. Our website contains contacts of different companies where you can order individual production of grapevines or buy ready-made products. The companies collected in the section “Where to buy, order forged vines” offer a wide range of design solutions.
In conclusion, it is worth noting that the vine ornament with intricate leaves, flowers and fruits perfectly decorates various objects in the exterior and interior. They can be used to decorate stair railings, pillars, grilles on windows and fireplaces, arches, gazebos, barbecues, furniture items and much more.
Forged vine
A forged vine is a symbol of prosperity, attracting wealth to the house. It will be an effective and bright solution for decorating furniture, window grilles, and entrance doors. Climbing grapes beautifully cover pergolas and arches and enliven pillars and fences. Such details give the house and grounds a touch of antiquity, while at the same time making them incredibly fashionable. Forged wicker can turn even such banal and boring objects at first glance as a coat hanger into works of art.
