BRICK WIRE CUT
c. 1900Rectangle machine pressed wire cut brick. Brick has a number of cracks through it and has evidence of being burnt on the outside. Remains of white mortar on all sides of the brick.
Wire cut brick, possibly made in Kelmscott. The brick is from a chimney that was part of a timber home in Kelmscott known as the Campbell House. Evidence of being burnt and cracking from either the fire in the fireplace/chimney or when the brick was made.
Wire cut bricks are made as the clay is pushed through a mould. The moulded length of clay is then cut to size with a wire cutter.
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Brickmaking has been an important industry within the City of Armadale from the early to mid 1800s to today. It started with families making hand pressed bricks from locally sourced clay for homes and community buildings. In the late 1890s and early 1900s commercial production of machine made bricks started and soon the district was supplying bricks for the entire state.
The brick is part of a collection of local bricks that represent how brick making has evolved within the district from hand made to automated machine made.
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