Yorkshire Foundry is a small team. Two of us in York, and a family-run foundry twenty miles away. Every door knocker, handle and decoration starts as a drawing and ends as solid cast metal, shaped by the same few pairs of hands.
We started as friends, kicking ideas around. One of them, briefly, was a bamboo bike. Then Ben came up with the interchangeable door knocker: a head you can change on your door without touching the fixings. We got excited and ran with it. In 2022 we took it to Kickstarter. Within 48 hours we had hit three times our target. By the close we were at nearly five times it: £19,293 from 101 backers. The foundry has not stopped since.
Ben leads design and engineering. He came up with the interchangeable knocker system that lets you change the head on your door without touching the fixings, and works closely with the foundry to hold fine detail in every casting.
Rob runs the business: the orders, the post, the emails, the small things that have to be right. He cares about good design that is well made and well delivered, and lasts.
Our castings are made twenty miles from York by skilled foundrymen, using the lost wax process: a wax pattern, a ceramic shell, then molten metal. We keep the supply chain short and local, so we know the hands behind every piece.
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Designed in York. Cast on the edge of the North York Moors. Made to last.
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