This was a rare sight. Most of the rural people build their own homes out of mud bricks. I suppose this is an art passed on from generation to generation. The soil is a clay so all you have to do is add a little straw and put in a form and let it dry in the sun...
11 Comments:
At September 18, 2005 7:29 PM,
Mom said…
Would these bricks wash away under a lot of rain? How long does take for them to get baked to where they can be used to build a house?
Dumb questions,huh?
At September 19, 2005 11:37 AM,
Anonymous said…
this being an old, world wide way of building their own dwellings. ''ADOBE BRICKS''... The adobe village at TAOS, NM is an example of how long they last. Several hundred years. MIMI
At September 19, 2005 2:14 PM,
Anonymous said…
And those Indians of the Southwest learned the brick trick by watching the birds build their nests. . .barn swallows et al.
Continents away, yet similarities of culture. . .
At September 19, 2005 2:15 PM,
Anonymous said…
forgot to sign my name to the above. Great pictures, Ronnie.
Sandie
At September 19, 2005 2:30 PM,
Anonymous said…
Speaking of Indians, the Dallas Cowboys vs. Redskins toonight! Go Cowboys!!! - Billy
At September 21, 2005 10:26 AM,
MSG Ronald C. Wegner said…
My intel tells me the COWBOYS GOT SCALPED BY THE REDSKINS.
At September 21, 2005 10:28 AM,
MSG Ronald C. Wegner said…
If it rained like it did in New Orlens all the bricks would crumble, but they never get more than 6-8 inches
At September 22, 2005 8:28 AM,
Anonymous said…
Msgt. Wegner, I hardly think that a score of 13 to 14 is getting ''scalped''.... I think it is called ''losing by a hair''!!!!!Just you wait til Sunday!!! MIMI - GO COWBOYS!!!!
At September 23, 2005 10:26 AM,
MSG Ronald C. Wegner said…
NOT THE WAY I HEARD IT
At October 10, 2005 5:50 PM,
|3run0 said…
These bricks go *way* back in Iraq. They date from the neolitic, before the sumerians! Anything built with them had to be rebuilt every 30 yrs or so.
At November 14, 2005 4:41 AM,
MSG Ronald C. Wegner said…
Way to go BrunO!
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