Janet Kaiser on fri 26 sep 03
What a gracious blessing! Thank you Lili.
I have also been thinking about your teeny bricks and only have
the problem of knowing which type of brick? If I think "brick" it
is red and rectangular with a depression top and bottom, however,
last time I was working with bricks, they were rectangular, grey
with holes right through. Which type are you going to make?
If it is the former, I think making a little clay and
biscuit-fired "tool" for stamping in that depression would be
preferable to making a mould. You could then cut (not roll -
"smoothness" is to be avoided) a slab of clay into the right
thickness, place two parallel laths across and stamp in the shape
before cutting the clay into "bricks". I doubt they make cookie
cutters the right size and shape, but for a small number, perhaps
some of that steel banding tape bent into a rectangle would serve
your purpose?
Making a two-part negative mould in clay, biscuit fire the two
pieces and then squash clay into one using the other as a
"lid-press" would be another way to go... OK... you have a
hundred or so pre-cut bits of stiffish clay to compress, but you
would not have to do them all at once.
To get the texture of teeny bricks similar to a full-sized ones
but "in proportion" needs a finer brick-clay than the
brick-makers use... So how about if you mixed a light coloured
fine grog in with a darker clay body? Would spraying the roughly
cut and pressed surface with water, flush away enough to expose
the grog and produce a suitably "convincing" surface?
It has been a while since I really studied a brick, but you are
one, Lili! It may be a slightly dated expression once used by
authors of jolly-hockey stick girl's books, but that is what you
are. May your blessing be yours tenfold.
Sincerely
Janet Kaiser
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