As the most common bricks are rectangular prisms, six surfaces are named as follows:
• Top and bottom surfaces … 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 lon… See more

The practice of laying uncut full-sized bricks wherever possible gives brickwork its maximum possible strength. In the diagrams below, such uncut full-sized bricks are coloured as follows:
Stretcher H… 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 varying depth or thickness. … 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 wall with the simplest possible masonry transverse … See more

This bond has one stretcher between headers, with the headers centred over the stretchers in the courses below.
Where a course begins with a quoin stretcher, the course will ordinarily terminate w… See more

A row of single basket weave bond comprises pairs of sailors laid side-by-side, capped with a shiner, alternating with pairs of sailors laid side-by-side sat atop a shiner. Subsequent rows are identical and aligned wit… See more