The blacksmith is the heart of rural life and the soul of the village. In this workshop, with its distinctive smell, iron is heated to red hot on a bed of coal stoked by a bellows. Before your eyes, he transforms the iron to the sound of his hammer striking the anvil. He cuts, lengthens, and stretches the material to make horseshoes or nails. This multi-talented man then becomes a farrier or nail maker.
The village blacksmith
