‘Steel City Axe Maker’ is a relief engraving created for chapter 11 of James Fox’s book CRAFTLAND, A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts & Vanishing Trades, published by Bodley Head (4 Sept 2025)
The series includes four engravings:
‘Wallers’
Chapter 1: The Ground Beneath Our Feet
Dry Stone Wallers, West Yorkshire
‘The Last Crofter of Lonbain’
Chapter 2: A Roof over One’s Head
Highland Thatching, Applecross
‘Bell Founders’
Chapter 7: The Ringing Isle
Bell-Founding, Loughborough
‘Axe Maker’
Chapter 11: Steel City
Tool-making, Sheffield
Each engraving is printed on Liber Charta 145gsm paper, from a hand-engraved block, in a limited edition of 100 copies.
Additional prints are available to view here
