Subject: Re: Women Blacksmiths

From: [email-masked] (Bill Fiorini)
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 09:53:22 -0500

( all the other stuff snipped)   >All three of these ladies mentioned, by
the way, are LADIES!  All three are
>attractive, and none matches the implied description you gave!

----Although the info is helpful, I don't think we need to include a female
blacksmiths ladylike, attractive, or  ugly  qualities in a description of
their capabilities.     Unless you want to include a description of those
qualities for both male and female smiths.
-kirsten skiles ( on fiorini's computer)

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From: [email-masked] (Frost, Jerry)
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 23:01:03 -0800

> -kirsten skiles ( on fiorini's computer)

I don't believe the reference to femaninity was intended as a reflection 
on ability but to refute the stereotype of the smith as having to be big 
and burly. When girls and boys are in the smithy I always try to stress 
finness over strength at the anvil.

	Frosty
-- 
If it ain't forged
It ain't real
wrought iron is
The FROSTWORKS

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From: Peter Beky <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 15:28:15 +1000

Libby is a woman blacksmith, owns & operates her own business here in
Sydney (Australia).  Just had her first child.  She was 8 months
pregnant when I helped her do a job for an art exhibition as her 
striker.  Trained in England.  SBS Television did a peice on her for an 
Arts program at the "Iron Corroboree" last year.  There is possibly some 
video floating around of it, though the OZ & US video format is 
different.

Peter.