[SunkenCiv]

Restoration of Qiaocun composite tiles and tiled-roofing method.

Credit: Scientific Reports (2023)

[Larry Lucido]

I’m pretty sure that voids the lifetime warranty.

[Revel]

They fail to show how these titles were fastened in place. I would be interested in knowing that.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I worked in a Chinese village called “Shuifu” in the Yunnan Province in the winter of 1976-1977. The Chinese were building a new natural-gas fed fertilizer plant there. I was in charge of starting the power plant attached to the fertilizer plant.

The village had its very own “tile factory” which was nothing more than a spot by a clay bank, some wire saws to cut the clay, a rubber mold to hand-form the semicircular tile, and a crude wood-fired kiln. Most houses in the village were single-room, made from rammed earth, had open windows (no glass), and had thatched roofs. The “Rich” people had tiled roofs.

I’m sure what I observed was more primitive than the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046–771 BC) terracotta tile manufacturing described in this article.

[sauropod]

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