Forging ahead: Zainab grinding out a living at her workshop in Penang.
PETALING JAYA: For Penang’s very own “iron lady”, the heat of a foundry has not melted her love of forging useful household items from metal.
Zainab Ibrahim, a 64-year-old who has 19 grandchildren, makes more than 30 types of sharpened tools, such as parang, golok (machete), axes, and various knives.
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