tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post5336679879643094344..comments2023-12-07T02:42:50.522-06:00Comments on Grit in the Gears: On Bricks.soubriquethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-22930722826296847022016-07-06T15:35:23.144-05:002016-07-06T15:35:23.144-05:00A great post..inspiration for some work?A great post..inspiration for some work?gzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08034777779347889773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-29285861946809271522010-02-12T17:01:50.071-06:002010-02-12T17:01:50.071-06:00Matt: I remember you posting about working there. ...Matt: I remember you posting about working there. I'd like to sneakily carve and modify unfired bricks.....<br /><br />I've got anothe brick post in mind. Well, I think I've got enough for a book.soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-33603313404626316872010-02-12T16:59:00.152-06:002010-02-12T16:59:00.152-06:00Rita, Ianto, now there's a fine Welsh name isn...Rita, Ianto, now there's a fine Welsh name isn't it. Iechydd da, Ianto!<br /><br />I've been into a few cob buildings, they're very efficient insulators. On day I might post a post about fired cob/adobe/mud. Nader Khalili, no longer with us, pioneered fired adobe, or "superadobe" as he called it, after he noted in an eartquake that the kilns in Persian villages were still standing, though they were similar in structure to the collapsed houses. What, then, was different? The kiln was a fired structure, ceramic, no longer mud.<br />http://greenmyplanet.blogspot.com/2007/06/nader-khalili-creates-homes-from.htmlsoubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-46502909470763343222010-02-11T12:41:50.880-06:002010-02-11T12:41:50.880-06:00Soub this post is wonderfull, I do find as much in...Soub this post is wonderfull, I do find as much interest in bricks as pots at times. Not sure if I told you this already but I spent a while working at a local brickworks and would get many strange look for staring at broken bits of fired brick while I was supposed to be stacking them. Cheers for now.Matt Grimmitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10885878031802377116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555664269648250473.post-73541798909035785882010-02-11T08:23:51.590-06:002010-02-11T08:23:51.590-06:00That was an interesting read. Thanks.
Playing in t...That was an interesting read. Thanks.<br />Playing in the mud...I have a little experience with the concept. <a href="http://www.cobcottage.com/workshops" rel="nofollow">this</a> is a link to some friends, Ianto & Linda who have a nice cobb cottage industry down the road. Interesting note, Linda came by the office yesterday, looking for some old newspapers, she was impressed with the stacks of the darn things in the back room & is promising to figure out a way to take them off our hands, by incorporating them into one of their workshops. <br />I have always wanted to try my hand at building a small cobb oven just for fun {& delicious pizza) & someday I will get to it. <br /><br />It's great that you never let go of your love of making things with earth. As we know, creative pursuits are an important factor in maintaining a well rounded life & certainly makes for a more interesting person.ritahttp://handmaiden-furry.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com