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Decorative details CAST IRON

here’s often confusion surrounding the attribution of cast-iron and wrought-iron objects. Essentially, wrought iron is a low-carbon malleable alloy that has to be worked by hand or through mechanical processes. It was traditionally used for architectural elements, such as gates and balconies – even the Eiffel tower is made of wrought iron. It is a term that is also erroneously applied – stemming from historical methods – to the working of modern steel, a more refined version of wrought iron, which in contemporary terms gives us a whole variety of different steel alloys for particular applications and is the metal now worked by modern blacksmiths. In reality, the differences

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