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work (Fig. 171). What is rapidly being lost is the wide range of essential
crafting skills, with instead, an over-emphasis on limited theory and practice
to acquiring simple fixing skills, demanded by a hugely influential modern
construction industry. One ignores a craft's history and traditional skills at
one's peril.
Figure 171
Miniature gauged
niche, from original
TLB rubbers,
executed by the
author whilst using
it as an opportunity
to also teach selected
students the setting-out,
geometry, establishment
of templets, design
of cutting boxes, and
aspects of the practical
skills required in niche
construction, 2003-4.
If a man dwells on the past then he robs the present. But if a man ignores the
past he may rob the future. The seeds of our destiny are nurtured by the roots of
the past [Chinese proverb, s.I.].
Cut and rubbed and later, gauged brickwork were, and remain, the highest
expressions of the bricklayer's art, for so long overlooked within studies of
