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...Guston’s father was a blacksmith; other allusions are to the death of a beloved brother, his legs crushed by a car; Holocaust photographs of piled-up limbs; and the tumultuous bodies in Michelangelo’s “The...
...He teamed up with blacksmiths and carpenters to create the cranes, mobile platforms and scaffolding. Hundreds of workers — from bricklayers to coopers — joined him....
...That was left to the village blacksmith, who could run in and bowl fast or, as Brearley put it, “swing the bat with strong arms, brute force, not economy of effort....
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...Bray – then working for local government – commissioned a blacksmith to make an asado cross for his personal use. “A whole side of beef [cooked] on a cross is just the coolest thing,” he says....
...Later civilisations would value the skilled blacksmith’s labour in a nail even more than the raw material....
...and injustice among neglected Romani communities, who have always been one of the most significant forces in the formation of flamenco, while the metallic beat of the martinete recalls disenfranchised blacksmiths...
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...At Tunet, the Viking gathering place, warriors, blacksmiths, rope-makers and smelters illustrate other traditional crafts — and on some days, you can join workshops such as coin minting or wood carving....
...You were a blacksmith if your family was, like, the Black family.”...
...He was in the iron industry as a miner in Australia in his youth, and the interiors of the space feature raw iron, timber, soft leather and blacksmith’s tools at the bar....
...It’s not entirely new — The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, an exploitation revenge drama, was one of the key films in the Australian new wave of the 1970s — but it has jumped off the graph since Jennifer Kent...
...Mantel’s blockbuster Wolf Hall series, recounting the unlikely rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell from blacksmith’s son to Tudor powerbroker, rejuvenated the genre of historical fiction, bringing her critical...
...The FT’s Tim Hayward – who, quite literally, wrote the book on knives – tells me Herefordshire chef-turned-blacksmith Joel Black makes “the perfect blade”. joelblackknives.com La Fromagerie cheese voucher...
...Isham, who had been possessed by the mid-Victorian craze for fairies from the early 1860s, believed his miniature miners and blacksmiths came alive at night....
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...“People who get luxury are usually fine in any crisis,” says blacksmith Stewart Dives....
...When in 1847 Sir Charles Isham filled the stonework caverns on his estate with terracotta gnomes and elfin blacksmiths, he was not only making a fairy theme park, he was trying, in his own way, to stem the...
...The tableware is tactile: hand-carved wooden spoons and chopsticks, knives forged by a local blacksmith, lurid green moss in pots, and crockery by artist Sarah Jerath, who uses clay and stone that she digs...
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