The annual brickmaking process covers many months, culminating in October and November with the building of a kiln — a new ...

SANAA (Reuters) - Traditional mud brick tower houses have always been a source of pride to Yemenis, and over a year into a devastating civil war, they are also providing some much-needed jobs in the ...

A detail of a mud-brick house is seen in the Old City of Sanaa, Yemen, July 11, 2016. Picture taken July 11, 2016. (Photo: Reuters) Traditional mud brick tower houses have always been a source of ...

A laborer loads baked bricks into a cart at a brick kiln in Bath village near Lahore. (Photo: Kamran Chaudhry) In 2018, Rafiq Gulzar took a peshgi — an advance payment against labor — from a bhatta ...

Pottery in ancient Greece, as elsewhere, was fired in a specially-made ceramic kiln. Other firing structures, including food ovens, smelting furnaces, and lime kilns, would have been unsuitable for ...

Tile and brick making was once a thriving industry in the small water town of Jinxi in Kunshan. Thanks to extensive re-creation works, the glamorous history of this trade can now be observed in the ...

FARGO - In the back of North Dakota State University's downtown Renaissance Hall, a labor of love is taking shape, brick by brick. There, David Swenson, associate professor of visual arts at NDSU, and ...

Four years ago, Sharif Masih was ‘sold’ along with his debts by his master to another brick kiln owner. The 42-year-old Pakistani Catholic now toils at a new kiln in Faisalabad, Punjab province. He ...