brickmaking
Crafting building blocks
Brickmaking is the craft or industry of producing bricks—forming clay or similar materials into rectangular blocks and hardening them by drying or firing.
The process has remained fundamentally unchanged for millennia: mix clay, shape it, let it cure.
His family had been in brickmaking for three generations.
Clay block manufactory
- factoryIndustrial production facility
- hackShortcut or breach
- productionMaking or generating something
- manufacturingIndustrial product creation
mechanization · automation · quality control · grading · sorting · stacking · transport · curing
Heat-resistant ceramic block
- clinkerFused coal residue
- paverStone for outdoor flooring
- refractoryResistant to heat/control
- adobeSun-dried clay bricks
mudbrick · sun-dried · perforated · solid · frogged · cored · bullnose · coping
Oven for hardening clay
- temperatureMeasured heat intensity
- sinteringPowder consolidation by heating
- cokeCarbonized coal fuel
- charcoalBurned wood residue
flame · combustion · calcination · vitrification · updraft · downdraft · soaking · cooling
Form-giving container
- formShape or document
- pressApply force downward
- extrusionPushing through a die
- handmadeCreated manually, not mechanically
striking · frog · indent · stamping · drying · pallet · hacking · shaping
brickyard
Clay block manufactory
- factoryIndustrial production facility
- hackShortcut or breach
- productionMaking or generating something
manufacturing · mechanization · automation · quality control · grading · sorting · stacking · transport · curing · inventory
firebrick
Heat-resistant ceramic block
- clinkerFused coal residue
- paverStone for outdoor flooring
- refractoryResistant to heat/control
adobe · mudbrick · sun-dried · perforated · solid · frogged · cored · bullnose · coping
kiln
Oven for hardening clay
- temperatureMeasured heat intensity
- sinteringPowder consolidation by heating
- cokeCarbonized coal fuel
charcoal · flame · combustion · calcination · vitrification · updraft · downdraft · soaking · cooling · shrinkage
mold
Form-giving container
handmade · striking · frog · indent · stamping · drying · pallet · hacking · shaping · wooden mold
kaolin
Whiteite mineral for pottery
- bentoniteAsh-derived absorbent clay
- wedgingForcing into tight space
- plasticityAbility to change shape
earthen · slip · shaping · fireclay · loam · mudstone · marl · alluvial · tempering · soaking
mortar
Grinding bowl or binder
header · stretcher · veneer · pointing · jointing · laying · bedding · buttering · trowel · level
- handicraftssewing, knitting, pottery, weaving, embroidery
- Colonial WilliamsburgColonial Williamsburg, Capitol Building, living history, period costumes, blacksmith
- ceramicspottery, porcelain, cup, bowl, plate
- craftssewing, knitting, painting, glue, scissors
- ancient craftspottery, mosaics, weaving, carpentry, blacksmithing
- Hudson ValleyHudson River, Hudson River School, Henry Hudson, Kingston, Poughkeepsie
brickmakingbricklaying
Constructing with mortared blocks
masonry · construction · building · stonework
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