Video from a bloomery smelting class taught by Lee Sauder at the New England School of Metalworking in September 2019. Lee Sauder (www.leesauder.com) taught a week-long class in which we learned how to smelt limonite ore into iron and steel using the traditional bloomery process. This is how iron was made for thousands of years in many parts of the world, including Europe before the Industrial Revolution. I recorded this video during the class, capturing highlights from the week-long experience. We made lots of iron! To learn more about smelting, check out the following resources: https://www.leesauder.com/smelting_research.php — smelting research and tutorials by Lee Sauder. http://warehamforgeblog.blogspot.com/?m=1 — Darrell Markewitz’s blog, detailing years of smelting experiments. https://m.facebook.com/groups/361798240526981/ — Iron Smelters of the World, and active community of smelting research https://m.facebook.com/pages/category/Artist/Andrew-J-Welton-268780190692625/ — my Facebook page, where I share my smelts and the historical artifacts I reproduce