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Blacksmithing may have once been considered a thing of the past, but local artists keep the tradition alive.
Emily Bollinger / WGLT As Taylor Mathews lit the forge in his family’s metalworking shop in rural Bloomington, just behind him was an anvil from the ’80s. The 1880s. Taylor, 22, was surrounded by tools that are decades older than he is. Time is a funny thing in this workshop. That's one of the things Taylor likes about what he does. “Knives and edged instruments have built the world,” Matthews said. “They’ve always been used, and you walk into a history museum and there’s masterful pieces of work that were also functional. Knives and swords and things like that.”