Colonial Ironwork in Guanajuato, Mexico Page: 15
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It ecmM be broken easily. cast iron had no welding
qaaH$A#a* It eould stand great heat, bat Be heavy
blows. Pieoes had t# be fastened with bolts sad .
Worker# of east &rea were organized into @aapaal#s sine#
the taaifiMB? of @agt &r@a required several unrelated skills
which were usually not mastered by any one individual.
Baeh group had a pattern maker, 3ha had to be a wood
aarvwr inasmuch as most of the patterns were Mads of wood;
then, there -was the mold -maker who footed the melds of
sand? aad* finally, there were the men ^ha understood
the firing and ponying of the iron. The process of pour-
lag the metal into molds and letting it #o#l ^ '
be far mays praetieal as far as volume of production was
concerned than beating out the iron for long hours on the
anvils however, it produced a decadent art.
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Christie, Mildred Virginia. Colonial Ironwork in Guanajuato, Mexico, thesis, 1947; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc75536/m1/24/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .