A warm, flickering flame from a fireplace provides a calming, inviting ambience to all those around, especially on colder winter nights. However, maintaining that fire takes work and quality tools.

Do you remember the last time you saw a fireplace bellows? A bellows is a tool for blowing gusts of air into a fire, thus adding fuel for flames that are gradually disappearing. century ago, most ...

Back in the day, bellows were made from animal skin, and even today, you can find fireplace bellows made of leather. Usually, bellows have wooden handles with an expandable leather (or another ...

In past centuries, fireplace tools consisted of a poker and tongs to rearrange burning logs, a small shovel to remove ashes, perhaps a whisk broom to sweep up leftover fuel and ashes, and a bellows to ...

There are plenty of things to consider when purchasing fireplace accessories. Among them are, do you want accessories that are primarily practical or both decorative and practical?; Do you need to ...

APPRAISER: Well, what it is called is a turtle-back fireplace bellows-- "turtle-back" because of the turtle back-like shape of this piece. And these were both practical and ornamental pieces that were ...

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Back in the day, bellows were made from animal skin, and even today, you can find fireplace bellows made of leather. Usually, bellows have wooden handles with an expandable leather (or another ...