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Term 03 · A proverb from the forge

Demir tavında dövülür

Strike while the iron is hot.

Do the work at the moment it can be done. Turkish keeps the blacksmith in the sentence, and Anatolia was working iron about 4,000 years ago.

1 One small word

tav

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2 Hammer it in its tav

Hold the bellows to heat the iron. Strike only while the needle is inside the window. Six good strikes make a hook.

400°Ctav1400°C

Forging colours and temperatures are approximate. Real smiths read the colour, not a number.

3 Iron in Anatolia

4 Every forge has the same advice

More iron in Turkish

5 How a hook is forged

6 Who still strikes the iron

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7 Where the iron leads

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8 Forged, for every day

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