This page shows the hardware we have forged and cast to use with doors that “slide” rather than swing on hinges. We have largely copied the work of craftsmen in previous centuries, using the design perfected by them for moving doors, sometimes very large doors, with relative ease. We have used these on several projects where clients have restored historic timber-frame barns as homes. The hand-forged iron frames with cast bronze wheels compliment the huge hand hewn posts and beams found in these magnificent structures.

These sand-cast bronze roller wheels have been machined and wire wheeled with their hardened dowel pin axles pressed part way in, ready for installation into the forged iron frame. Approximately four inches in diameter, they allow even large heavy doors to roll smoothly along the door track.

Part of the beauty of this age old design is in its functionality. Even a large barn door weighing nearly four hundred pounds can be opened or shut with a finger! We have made the “rolling frames” in different sizes to accommodate their use on smaller interior doors in modern homes. We offer them in different finishes to better blend into a wide variety of decorating styles, from the natural beauty of buffed and waxed iron to paints. The appeal, in any case, comes from the character found only in hand wrought work in contrast to the mass produced pablum of our modern world.