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<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Press: <a href="#dirty">Dirty
Jobs</a> : <a href="#southern">Southern Living</a> : <a href="#period">PeriodHomes.com</a><br>
Read <a href="#story">"The Story of of Old Carolina Handmade Bricks"</a> </strong></font></p>
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<p><strong><font color="#FFCC00" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Elegance in Hand Moulded Brick</font></strong></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The classic antique beauty of Old Carolina Brick is created by hand.Each brick is hand moulded in the colonial tradition of craftsmanship and lasting beauty.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Used on historical restorations in Williamsburg, Monticello, Mount Vernon and Montpelier, Old Carolina brick add a unique warmth and flavor of history to any architectural design. Our hand made brick are primarily used on eminent residences from Charleston, South Carolina to Carmel, California by discerning designers and as well as on notably stunning commercial projects from New York to Sao Paulo.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Based on our commitment to quality and authenticity, Old Carolina brick are each hand moulded and then fired with coal to provide the beautiful bisques, hues, and unique colors identical to those of brick made centuries ago. Our hand crafting process imparts distinctive folds, finger marks, and particular surface irregularities for individual characterization of each brick. Old Carolina handmade brick provide a unique appearance unequalled by conventional mass produced brick.</font></p>
<p><strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Old Carolina Handmade Brick – Founded on the heritage of authentic brick making skill.</font></strong></p>
<p><a href="#top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">back
to top ^</font> </a></p>
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<div style="width:240px;margin:20px 10px 0px 10px;float:left;text-align:center;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:18px;line-height:21px;color:#990033;">Learn more about<br>
why you should<br>
Insist on Brick</span></div>
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<h2><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><a name="dirty" id="dirty"></a><a href="http://www.handmadebrick.com/video.html"><img src="images/but_dirtyJobs.jpg" alt="Our handmade brick process was featured on Discovery's Dirty Jobs featuring Mike Rowe" width="163" height="152" hspace="20" vspace="5" border="0" align="right"></a></font><font color="#FFCC00" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We
View Snippets From Our Feature Shown on Discovery Channel's
Dirty Jobs </font></h2>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The Discovery
Channel's Mike Rowe, host of the popular Dirty Jobs series
paid our factory a visit for a feature that aired in May of
2008. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The episode
featured mud throwing and coal flashing, two necessary in creating
handmade brick of the highest quality and appearance.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><a href="video.html">View
snippets of the show on our videos page » </a></font></p>
<p><a href="#top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">back
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<h2><font color="#FFCC00" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a name="southern" id="southern"></a>The
Genuine Handmade Brick Professionals Trust</font></h2>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><a href="article_southernLiving99.pdf" target="_blank"><img src="images/but_southernLiving021907.jpg" alt="View our write-up in Southn Living" width="163" height="56" hspace="20" vspace="5" border="0" align="right"></a>Primarily
used on new, fine residences throughout the country, our handmade
brick are also used on numerous historical restorations in
Monticello, Williamsburg, Mount Vernon, and Charleston. Old
Carolina brick add a characteristic warmth and flavor of history
to any design home.</font></p>
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<h2><font color="#FFCC00" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a name="period" id="period"></a>The Art of
Handmade Brick</font></h2>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://period-homes.com/3-handmadebrick-MAY2009.html" target="_blank"><img src="images/but_periodHomes.jpg" alt="Read the article about our handmade brick in Period-Homes.com" width="163" height="56" hspace="20" vspace="5" border="0" align="right"></a>Old
Carolina Brick Company brings hand-molded brick back to the
built environment. The American love affair with brick has
been part of our history from the beginning. The ardor may
have cooled with the advent of machine-made brick, but the
current enthusiasm for handmade brick has brought passion and
character back to this ubiquitous building material. </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://period-homes.com/3-handmadebrick-MAY2009.html" target="_blank">Read
the rest of our May 2009 write-up in <em>Period-Homes.com</em> by
Nicole V. Gagné »</a></font></p>
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<h2><font color="#FCC60F" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a name="story" id="story"></a>The Story
of Old Carolina Handmade Brick</font></h2>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The history
of making brick by hand can be traced back thousands of years
to the early Babylonian and Egyptian civilizations where clay
from the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates and Nile Rivers
were formed by hand and left to dry in the sun. Later, in about
the third millennium BC, the brick makers discovered that heat
applied to the bricks would greatly increase their durability
and be much more resistant to cold and wet weather conditions.
This enabled the construction of permanent buildings where
harsh, cold and wet conditions prevented the use of earlier
mud brick. The early field kilns were fired with either wood
or coal. </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Romans
used fired brick and they introduced their brick making technology
to many parts of their empire, including Europe and Britain.
Later, during the colonization of America, the ships bringing
settlers often held handmade brick as ballast in their holds.
</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The art of
making brick by hand was brought from England and Holland to
the American colonies by craftsmen who would set up a brick
making operation at each construction site. They would gather
the local clay and throw clumps of it into their set of wooden
moulds, which they carried from job to job. After sun drying,
the brick were stacked into piles or field kilns and fired
with either wood or coal, which imparted unique colorations
to the brick surfaces. </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Old Carolina
Brick has preserved this ancient art of making brick by hand.
Although our operation is modernized and automated, we have
kept the process of throwing the clay by hand into wooden moulds.
Our skilled mud throwers form a clump of clay into a wedge
shape, roll it in sand, and drop it into a wooden mold. This
hand moulding operation imparts distinctive folds, finger marks
and other surface irregularities which make each brick individually
and uniquely characterized. </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Colonial
brick makers used a batch firing process which made control
of quality and brick durability rather difficult. After the
forming operation, Old Carolina brick are fired in a modern
tunnel kiln to assure a consistent high quality and structurally
durable brick. We have, however, reintroduced the process of
firing with coal so that the brick have the same warm and earthy
colors found in brick made hundreds of years ago. </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">After firing,
Old Carolina brick are then blended and packaged on a modern
monorail into our unique double pack cube. This type of package,
which uses extra strapping half way up the cube, insures the
brick arrive at the job in perfect condition. From the clay mining
to final shipping of the brick, full quality control measures
are used in our plant operations to achieve a beautiful, durable,
and well blended brick in the wall. </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We offer
a full line of shapes and pavers, as well as arches of all
types. And we offer expertise in matching any brick in size,
color and texture to those in numerous historical sites. Please
advise us of the type brick and desired quantity or send us
a photo or sample of the brick to be matched and we will be
glad to offer a matching brick. </font></p>
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