adobes

We're buying our adobes from a local family, they make them out of the earth of their ejiedo.

Pictures of My Construction Project 2003

These bricks, dried in the sun, were called adobes, and were plastered together and made smooth by a mortar of the same clay.

Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

The adobes were the native California habitations.

In the Footprints of the Padres Charles Warren Stoddard 1876

California, are of one story, built of adobes, that is, clay made into large bricks, about a foot and a half square, and three or four inches thick, and hardened in the sun.

Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848

These sun-dried bricks, or "adobes," are still made, as of old, on the banks of the Nile by the following method: -- A shallow pit or bed is prepared, into which are thrown the mud, chopped straw and water in suitable proportions, and the whole mass is tramped on until it is thoroughly mixed and of the proper consistence.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

The _enceinte_ spoken of is a mere structure of "adobes," large sun-baked blocks of mud and straw -- in short, the bricks of the

The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley Mayne Reid 1850

In this area there are no commercial manufacturers of natural adobes.

new adobe construction? 2009

So if you want old school from the ground up you may have to hire and train a crew to make your own adobes.

new adobe construction? 2009

In this area there are no commercial manufacturers of natural adobes.

new adobe construction? 2009

So if you want old school from the ground up you may have to hire and train a crew to make your own adobes.

new adobe construction? 2009