Wrought Iron Candle Sconces
If you want to decorate and add accessories to your house, it will look much better if you decide on a style first. I personally like the traditional style, which involves the use of classic furniture and a preference for old fashioned materials, such as wood and tile, over modern materials, such as plastic and other synthetic materials.
A traditional style not only looks great and welcoming, but it also enhances the image of the family that lives in a house with such a style. It is a symbol of status and a long time presence and history. Therefore, accessories and decorations should make reference to the past.
However, sometimes, accessories just look like they belong to the past, but they are actually made of more recent materials that give them better properties. This way, you get the best of both worlds.
A good example is wrought iron candle sconces. When people think or see a wrought iron candle sconce, they imagine the iron being worked from a soft form, and hammered to the desired shape, usually by a big bearded man that hammers the iron over an anvil.
However, despite the name, a wrought iron candle sconce isn’t usually made out of wrought iron. Real wrought iron, also known as rot iron or rod iron, isn’t produced commercially anymore in the United States since 1969, because the process was hard and costly.
Instead, today, a wrought iron candle sconce is made out of mid steel, also called carbon steel or plain carbon steel. Mid steel has several advantages over wrought iron, but mainly, it is cheaper and easier to produce, and it is more resistant. These qualities are passed to the wrought iron candle sconce, resulting in a cheaper product that is more resistant, and which can be manufactured in greater quantities by producers.
While most wrought iron candle sconces are made of mid still, there are some rare artisans who make real wring iron candle sconces from very old materials they have. However, it is difficult to find them and they are very expensive, since they are supposed to be art works rather than light accessories.
Now, you may be asking yourself the obvious question. Why is it still called a wrought iron candle sconce when it’s made out of mid steel, not wrought iron? Well, there isn’t a clear answer, but most traders agree that the name “wrought iron candle sconce” is a great marketing tool since it reflects an image of a traditional way of working with metals. Specially because wrought iron is considered to be of higher status than cast steel.
