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Architectural pottery : bricks, tiles, pipes, enamelled terra-cottas, ordinary and incrusted quarries, stoneware mosaics, faïences, and architectural stoneware (1900)

Lefêvre, Leon · London, Scott, Greenwood & Co. · leaf 298

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ill be understood that there are many possible ways of combining the ends and sides ; and this allows of varied designs being made by the use of bricks of different colours. We must, however, reject every combination which does not satisfy the above-mentioned conditions. It is beyond the province… … Fig. 334. Fig. 335. Figs. 332 to 335. — Various Systems of Wall-building. In thicker walls, the possible arrangements of the bricks are infinite, and we must choose those which give the best cohesion in each direction by interrupting the joins as much as possible. If the thickness of the wall…

Ceramics · Ceramics in architecture · Brickmaking · Tiles · Terra-cotta

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