{"id":"asset_a3c8a9214454","type":"text/plain","category":"text","name":"11-orriston-bell-foundry-casting-book.txt","size_bytes":16081,"title":"11 orriston bell foundry casting book","description":"A fictional foundry's casting book for 1887, recording bell-making operations from April through August. It contains dated entries documenting metal charges, casting procedures, technical specifications, weights, musical notes, and workshop incidents, written in the voice of the foundry's owner with occasional notes from staff.","extracted_text":"ORRISTON & DAUGHTER, BELL FOUNDERS — CASTING BOOK, 1887 SEASON\nOriginal fiction in the form of a foundry's casting book. Orriston & Daughter\nnever existed; nor did the town of Sallowmere, the river Quen, or any bell,\nchurch, or person named here. Not a transcription of any real record.\n\nKept by: Ada Orriston, founder. Entries in her hand unless marked (H) for\nHesketh, the head moulder, or (W) for Wren, the apprentice.\n\n── THE SEASON'S RULES, WRITTEN OUT ON THE FIRST PAGE AS EVERY YEAR ───────────\n\n1. No pour before the loam has had four clear days in the drying stove, and\n   never on a day the glass shows rain coming. Damp loam killed the Pellow\n   tenor in '81 and we do not forget it.\n2. Bell metal is thirteen parts copper to four parts tin by weight, and the\n   tin goes in last, when the copper is at full heat and skimmed. Old bell\n   metal bought in is remelted on its own first and assayed by the bead\n   before it joins a new charge.\n3. Every bell is struck for its note before it is","attributes":{},"usable_for":["period voice for historical fiction","bell-casting technical procedures and terminology","victorian workshop management and record-keeping","metallurgical ratios and quality control methods"],"provenance":"original-work","provenance_note":"An original work of fiction by its author, in the form of a foundry casting book.","kind":"original work of fiction in the form of a foundry casting book","reliable_for":"The text, plot, characters, voice and quotable lines of this work.","describe_v":6,"price_sats":{"card":0,"full":2000},"content_available":true,"available":true,"retained_offered":false,"embed_offered":false,"licences":{"single-task":{"sats":2000,"grants":"use for one task, then let go"},"retained":null,"embed":null}}