Using only primitive tools and natural materials, I crafted a brick mold from wood to produce 100 mud bricks measuring 15 x 20 cm. The mold was carefully built using mortise and tenon joints, stone ...

"Soil was used for building in Egypt before the man-made mud bricks was developped. The very limited documentation on brick-making shows a way of working that seems to be identical to that of ...

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KIVOO, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Perched on a dirt tower on the edge of a bog in Kivoo village, eastern Kenya, Erastus Njiru applies finishing layers of mud to a pile of bricks. "I can sell ...