The bellows, just like the rest of the smithy, were both primitive and advanced.
As far as I could tell, they combined some sort of spinning device and then the scaled-up version of the handheld bellows that one could use by grabbing its ends and then pulling them apart to gather the air within, only to then push the ends together to pump the air through the device's front.
When it came to the smithy's bellows, they were made with simple, almost crude materials. Yet, the fashion in which those materials were connected to each other, the quality of the welds, nails, or even the cow skin from which the bellows' air-tank was made…
It was a mix of absolutely primitive materials and quality that could only be a product of someone practicing their craft not for years, but decades.
And after just a few moments of two workers spinning a huge wheel at the bellows' back while two others worked to pump it up and down, the coalbed started to gain some shine.
WHOOSH!
