Weathervanes
Traditionally made, high quality, beautiful and artistic silhouette weathervanes. All our weathervanes are handmade to order to design, size, mounting and cross style, we have a huge range of existing designs for you to choose from or order a bespoke weathervane design today.
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Existing Weathervanes By Design
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Bird Weathervanes33 Products
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Wildlife & Nature Weathervanes28 Products
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Sport Family & Leisure Weathervanes21 Products
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Dog Weathervanes20 Products
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Planes Boats & Train Weathervanes14 Products
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Car & Bike Weathervanes14 Products
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Mythological & Fairy Tale Weathervanes14 Products
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Horse & Stable Weathervanes11 Products
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Farm Animal Weathervanes11 Products
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Hunting & Shooting Weathervanes8 Products
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Tractors & Farm Machinery Weathervanes7 Products
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Buildings & Architecture Weathervanes7 Products
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Contemporary & Artistic Weathervanes4 Products
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Traditional Pennant & Flag Weathervanes2 Products
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Clearance & Ex-Display Weathervanes
Bespoke Weathervanes
1. Weathervane Choices
Our weathervanes are custom made to size, cross style and bracket. View our weathervane buying guide and note down your choices.
2. Send A Photo
Or Sketch
Tell us your bespoke design idea. We welcome photographs, sketches and even verbal briefs. We offer modifications on existing weathervane designs to welcoming completely new bespoke commissions.
3. Free Quotation & Advice
Our professional design team will discuss your idea with you and offer you a full quotation for the design and manufacture of your bespoke weathervane.
4. Design Sent To You For Approval
Our design team will supply you with a full design proposal for approval or requested modifications. This would be by email or uploaded to our online shop.
5. Manufacturing
& Delivery
Once you have fully approved the design it will move into our manufacture schedule. Once completed we will email you with photographs for approval prior to delivery or collection.
Weathervane Buying Guide
Our weathervanes are custom made to size, North, South, East, West cross style and tailored brackets. For more information on your tailored choices and manufacture costs of our weathervanes view our buying guide.
Customer Design Stories
We are regularly requested to design, family-themed weathervanes and signs, often including the parents, children and family pets and for which we regularly receive a selection of photographs of these for us to use as reference for our designs. (Of which there are many examples on our website).
However, we also occasionally only receive a verbal brief, accompanied by a sketch such as this.
Which, following some liaising with the customer, we supplied the design for her appraisal, which was wholeheartedly approved and now adorns the top of the barn where it can be viewed from the farm kitchen.
A good result!
Of all the different styles of horse designs requested over the years, those that mention the word ‘dressage’ always result in the need to sit back and pay close attention as they inevitably require that little bit more attention to detail with regards to the stance of the horse.
Subsequently, when we received a request to design a dressage-themed weathervane for Carl Hester, following his gold medal win at the 2012 Olympics riding ‘Utopia’, – this design was undertaken not without a little trepidation! 🙂
However, our design was approved and we proceeded towards the cutting out and manufacture of this weathervane for his dressage stables where it has been much admired and approved by all.
Meanwhile, while all competitive horse riding and jumping denominations having been much represented by us over the years, we are more often than not supplied with a photograph of the much loved family horse for inclusion into a weathervane or sign design, often accompanied by family members, and/or the family dog.
Be inspired – Over to you!
What Our Customers Say
Why Choose A Black Forge Art Weathervane
Black Forge Art are an experienced family team of designers, engineers and blacksmiths, working from our traditional forge in rural Kent, England. We take great pride in every piece of metal artwork we produce and hope that you will enjoy your custom made weathervane for many years to come.
- Our weathervanes are exclusively handmade in the UK, we do not import any components or products.
- Exclusive use of premium, reliably sourced materials including Stainless Steel which is essential for both coastal and inland locations to ensure rust-free forever.
- With many modern ‘weathervanes’ only serving a decorative purpose, we want to emphasize that ours actually function as a wind direction indicator, effortlessly turning into the breeze.
- A Black Forge Art weathervane offers much more than the artistic top; we supply ours with a full heavy-duty and secure assembly that includes a bracket, a one-piece handmade North, South, East, West cross, and a robust vertical pole.
- Unsurpassed levels of highly detailed designs with intricate cut-outs that make a Black Forge Art weathervane stand out from the rest.
- Our manufacturing team ‘tig’ weld all weathervanes using 316 ‘marine grade’ stainless steel filler to ensure a discreet and beautifully engineered finish.
- We are renowned and trusted suppliers of public works of art including a vast portfolio of beautiful village and town signs.
In addition to hot forging, fabrication, and welding in the highest quality stainless steel, expert painters and coating specialists powder coat our weathervanes before being carefully packed and delivered.
Get in touch with our design team today for a free quotation
We are a family run business. That means we love dealing with customers on the phone and in person. We are more than happy to have chat with you over the phone about the personalised design you have in mind. 01797 270073
Email us directly here: info@blackforge.co.uk Or fill in the contact form below.
