Brick Makers
Aleppo
Date: 1750s-1770s
The poor quality clay around Aleppo was used for making bricks, but they apparently easily fell apart … read more
Damascus
Date: c. 1890-1908
In a chapter devoted to the craft of the mason (bannāʾ) the authors of the Qāmūs al-ṣināʿāt al-shamiyya (‘Dictionary of Damascene Crafts’) mention the creation of bricks using wooden matrices (qālib min khashb … read more
Hiraqla (Heraqla)
Date: c. 1996
The Syrian Directorate of Antiquities factory employs local people to make bricks using traditional technologies. These include levigation tanks, the moulding of bricks with simple wooden matrices … read more