On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Susan Koziel <[email protected]> wrote: > I know no one who glazes brick. > That would be a waste of money.
it's pretty ancient technology. The Assyrians and Babylonians used them. One of the reasons that Ishtar gate was a wonder of the world were the mosaics done on it, using glazed brick. Salt-glazed bricks, which used plain salt as a glaze, were quite common in the US in the early part of the 20th century. The elementary school I went to, built in the 30s, had all of its interior brickwork in salt-glazed brick. Salt-glazed bricks are no longer available, except as salvage, because of environmental rules. (It's considered bad form to release huge plumes of chlorine gas...) But the commercial marketplace offers a huge range of other glazed bricks. The brickyard here used to have a display wall built as a spectrum, showing off the colors available from one their suppliers. It had 100 colors or so. As you note, it's expensive, so they're usually only used for faces, and usually for decorative effects. (Though I've seen public restrooms made of glazed brick, where it takes the place of tile.) -- David Scheidt [email protected] _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
