Tracey Emin

In New York, working at the foundry, I was making these little figures. I desperately would like to make big figures, but I just can't do it; my hands don't do it. We were talking about making bronze plinths, and then we made one, a square one. I wrote on it, then I put a little figure on top, and it just looked really good. It worked.

English Artist

Bob Mortimer

I worked in a chicken factory, in a steel foundry, I worked on the bins for a year or so. It started as a summer job, but I stayed on because I liked it very much. I liked it that it made you very fit, doing all the lifting and that, so I could wear short-sleeved t-shirts, which I'd never been able to do before!

English Comedian

Rose Schneiderman

Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.

Polish Activist

Lenny Henry

My dad, Winston, didn't say much. He was a very reluctant man. He came home from working at the foundry every day and then he'd go to the bookies, watch cricket on TV or go to the pub. He was like a Victorian dad, really. He didn't have much to do with us kids.

British Actor

James Nasmyth

Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.

Scottish Inventor

Richard MacDonald

I do everything. Of course, I have 50 people who work for me to do the drudgery of mold making and all the foundry. This is an enormous task. But every stroke in these sculptures is from my hands.

American Sculptor

Maya Lin

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

American Architect

Martin McGuinness

They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother.

Irish Politician

We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat.

Foundry is used mainly in an industrial context for places making metal products.

Industry Specific

A foundry refers to the actual building or space where the metal work is done.

Physical Location

Foundries involve high heat, furnaces or forges, suggesting a harsh, hot environment.

Heat and Fire

Refers to the specialized skill of working with metal, not a place.

Technical Skill

Foundry in this sense often involves production, design, and technology.

Manufacturing Focus

This is about the profession of creating metal parts, found in job descriptions.

Job Context

 but befriended through some prop deals, was the manager of a local foundry. He took my master Falcon pattern, he actually did lost wax casting in bronze for me, and this is the bronze I got back. And this is, after some acid etching, the one that I ended up with. And this thing, it's deeply, deeply satisfying to me.

Adam Savage: My...

 attitude of wanting to bring their engineers start foundries there they found themselves that nobody was behind what they were manufacturing it gets better than that