Brick Goldsmiths

Across the territory of India is scattered a lot of brick workshops and quarries. People who made the main building material used for the construction of shacks of the poor and multi-storey buildings are living in makeshift tents and huts near their place of work.
From generation to generation master brick doing their work, transferring their skills to children.
Usually bricks are made in two ways - are cut from volcanic rock and mold clay, burning in a special way.
Women perform the dirtiest and hard work - the blank mold of clay, put them in a huge pyramid firing and ready to ship bricks on cars. Men melt furnace and watching ogёm them.
Since ancient times, the brick master equated untouchable and they were forbidden to settle in towns and villages, it prodolzhantsya today.

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