Brick Making
This kiln is now almost unpacked. The holes in the floor are where the heat of the flames ascends, and the especially hard-baked bricks from immediately above these are used for construction of water cisterns. [C.B.4]
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Brick Making
Traditionally the kilns were fired using camel-thorn growing on the nearby plains. Now oil is used – in the base of the pit several blackened openings under the kilns are visible (bottom left, plus two centrally at the corner of the pit), with some of the pipes used. Each firing takes around 72 hours. [C.B.3]
Brick Making
Here is a packed brick kiln. The red colour means that these bricks have been fired. The clay walls of the kiln, buttressed by bricks, are used and re-used. [C.B.2]
Brick Making
Although many buildings in Iran are built of mud or mud-bricks; baked or burnt bricks have been made from at least the first millennium BCE. The bricks stacked here are drying out after being moulded in simple wooden frames. A full brick-kiln is at right back, cooling off. [C.B.1]
LCAW and Dickens
Our London Climate Action Walk air quality walk ended at the Dickens Museum – on the left above:Image above right shows the nearby Airscape monitor – results below: This location was partly chosen because of the dirty air exhibition on there at the moment.Bleak house was set in the dense dirty fog of Victorian London: …
Pillars – and mirrors- of your communities
If you live in a city, maybe you don’t think of your local trees much – crammed as they are between buildings? Maybe you don’t think of them at all!But even in the most urban of settings, trees provide shade. Reduce pollution. They’re homes for the birds I heard in the dawn chorus for the …
Iranian crafts and craftsmen
As I started to visit Iran, I started to meet Iranian craftsmen – often high up on rudimentary scaffolding. I also started to realise how little is understood about their impressive skills and knowledge. With many master craftmen (ustads) relatively old, and relatively few young men now wanting to undergo the lengthy, often dirty, and …
Herbert: does he change his mind about Isfahan?
In his 1634 and 1638 editions, Herbert does not seem to notice that his illustration of the maydan shows “a Mosque East” on the western side[1]. He captions the image: “Take the outside of this brave Fabrick [sic] well presented”[2]. By 1665, he is more circumspect: “The outside of this noble Burse has this form, …
Herbert on the scale of the maydan
In Herbert’s later editions the maydan seems to have grown, being described as: “a thousand paces from North to South, and from East to West above two hundred”[1]. Herbert was not the only traveller who struggled to measure the maydan. I had already myself noticed how wildly different all the measurements were, when I came …
Junabadi
Junabadi, although he wrote later[1], was clearly aware that the maydan was originally intended as a sportsground[2]: “the Isfahanis had laid out a spacious rectangular maydan measuring some 300 jaribs in area… Any observer casting his glance on it would be filled with delight. In the very center of the maydan was [erected] a sublimely …