#kickplate

Your door takes a beating—boots, mud, weather, dogs scratching to get in. That’s where our hand-forged kick plates come in. Built like armor, shaped with care, and made to last longer than the door itself.

We craft each kick plate for doors the old-fashioned way: with real iron, real fire, and zero shortcuts. Whether you're after rustic charm or frontier-tough function, we've got a style for every door in your homestead.

Daily wear, muddy boots, restless pets—your doors take a hit. Add some armor and elegance with a hand-forged iron kick plate from Old West Iron.

⚒️ Solid iron, not thin sheet metal 🖐️ Hand-hammered texture & rustic finishes 🏡 Perfect for entry doors, barn doors & gates

Writing Skills Task #488

Writing Skills Task 488

To read more about this writing task and others, see this article

TASK 488 The door’s kickplate was metal.

There is now a small word amount goal as our writing becomes more complete.

WORD COUNT 100 OR MORE

We REALLY hope you will share what you put with us here, in the comments. We would love to read it.

Have fun

The Kickplate Project

“chemical bath” is an exhibition of alternative and traditional photographic and printing techniques. The exhibition features five photographers: Anne Campbell (Scotland), Charles Guerin (France), Toralf Sümmchen (Germany/USA), Ladislav Viszoczky (Czech Republic), and Marianne Priest (USA), and presents the array of techniques that they use in their work.

Among the techniques included are photograms, a camera-less way of capturing images, and wet plate collodion, which produces a positive image on a glass or metal plate - and is one of the earliest photographic processes, dating back to the 1880s. We’ll also be showing a collection of printing techniques including cyanotypes, kallitypes, as well as oil, gum bichromate and lith prints, some of which were hand-coloured after printing.

The aim of the exhibition is to familiarise viewers with some of the oldest and most beautiful printing and photographic techniques, which despite the dominance of digital photography are once again becoming a popular medium for artists who prefer the texture, unpredictability and the tangibility of hand-printed and hand-made analogue images.  

The exhibition is opening on Friday the 25th of September at 6 and will run until the 17th of October in Hanbury Road Gallery, Bargoed.

More here:

https://www.facebook.com/thekickplateproject