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metalsmith
noun
A craftsman fashioning objects such as tools or works of art out of various metals; one who engages in metalsmithing.
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An important date from more recent history is 1839, when the American metalsmith Isaac Babbitt first used tin-based alloys in bearings for machinery.
The metalsmith frequently embellished such buttons with insets of ivory, tortoiseshell, and jewels.
They included the furniture designers Jacques Ruhlmann and Maurice Dufrène; the architect Eliel Saarinen; metalsmith Jean Puiforcat; glass and jewelry designer René Lalique; fashion designer Erté; artist-jewelers Raymond Templier, H.G. Murphy, and Wiwen Nilsson; and the figural sculptor Chiparus.
The Kuba metalsmith worked with copper, iron, and brass, making weapons and tools to be admired as well as used.
One recent evening, Kristina Kozak, a metalsmith and, since November, the proprietor of a cocktail den with metal-themed drinks (the Hearth and Anvil, the Draw and Temper), mused, "I've ripped this building apart.
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There were, for instance, guilds of weavers, dyers, and fullers in the wool trade and of masons and architects in the building trade; and there were guilds of painters, metalsmiths, blacksmiths, bakers, butchers, leatherworkers, soapmakers, and so on.
From these luxury objects found at Alaca Hüyük, together with those found at Troy and elsewhere, scholars have concluded that processes known to the Anatolian metalsmiths of the Early Bronze Age included casting by cire perdue, hammering or repoussé work, sweating or soldering, granulation (decoration consisting of tiny spheres of gold soldered onto a background), filigree, and cloisonné inlay.
Kenite, member of a tribe of itinerant metalsmiths related to the Midianites and the Israelites who plied their trade while traveling in the region of the Arabah (the desert rift valley extending from the Sea of Galilee to the Gulf of Aqaba) from at least the 13th century to the 9th century bc.
They traded wood, cloth, dyes, embroideries, wine, and decorative objects; ivory and wood carving became their specialties, and the work of Phoenician goldsmiths and metalsmiths was well known.
Bhutan's metalsmiths are skilled in working with bronze, silver, and other fine metals.
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