Brickwork is masonry produced by a bricklayer, using bricks and mortar. Typically, rows of bricks called courses are laid on top of one another to build up a structure such as a brick wall.
Bricks may be … See more

As the most common bricks are rectangular prisms, six surfaces are named as follows:
• Top and bottom surfaces are called Beds
• Ends or narrow surfaces are called Headers or header faces See more

The practice of laying uncut full-sized bricks wherever possible gives brickwork its maximum possible strength. In the diagrams below, … See more

A leaf is as thick as the width of one brick, but a wall is said to be one brick thick if it as wide as the length of a brick. Accordingly, a single-leaf wall is a half brick thickness; a … See more

A brick is given a classification based on how it is laid, and how the exposed face is oriented relative to the face of the finished wall.
Stretcher or stretching brick A brick laid flat with its long narrow side exposed. Header or heading brick A … See more

A nearly universal rule in brickwork is that perpends should not be contiguous across courses.
Walls, running linearly and extending upwards, can be of … See more

Courses of mixed headers and stretchers
Flemish bond
Flemish bond has one stretcher between headers, with the … See more