WILLIAMSBURG — With the new year, masons at Colonial Williamsburg stand ready to use traditional 18th-century techniques to lay needed bricks recently created by a brick kiln operation on the edge of ...

Even after 10 years, the process of making bricks doesn’t get old for Colonial Williamsburg’s Josh Graml. Graml, who has been a journeyman in the masonry department for the past 10 years, said in his ...

If you examine local brickwork of the 18th and 19th centuries you will see a small number of bricks that have black ends, apparently glazed. This black glazing is not intentional. The “black-heads” ...

Soon, home builders may be growing their own insulation right in the walls of the home. And bricks could grow in a mold rather than bake in a kiln. Manufacturing traditional construction products like ...

It’s happened at last. From John Kennedy at Global Voices: From forcing the rescue of hundreds of brick kiln slave laborers last year and seeing it through long after local bodies gave up to being ...