9 Most Popular Brick Patterns

Read and learn about 9 amazign and most popular brick patterns nowadays.

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Running

or Stretcher Bond:

A pattern made using only stretchers, with the joins in each row (or course) centred on the bricks in the row below. Not structurally strong or aesthetically interesting, but very very common. Often used for curtain walls one brick thick. Mathematically this pattern displays the symmetry

cmm.

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Raking Stretcher Bond

Like Running Bond, but instead of the overlap between bricks being half a brick, it is less, usually a third or a fourth of a brick. Mathematically this pattern displays the symmetry p2.

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Flemish Stretcher Bond

Like Running Bond, but with single rows of Flemish Bond (alternating headers and stretchers) every n rows.

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A pattern made like Running Bond but with a row of headers replacing every nth course (n is usually odd). The headers are centred on the headers in the

row of headers below. Strong.

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A pattern made like Running Bond but headers instead of stretchers.

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Stack Bond:

A pattern made up of rows of stretchers with each stretcher centered on the stretcher below it. All joins run vertically down the entire wall. Not a strong bond at all, it is used only for decorative purposes. Mathematically this pattern displays the symmetry pmm.

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Flemish Bond:

A pattern made using alternating stretchers and headers, with the headers of each row centered on the stretchers of the row below. Very strong. Used for walls two bricks thick. Mathematically this pattern displays the symmetry cmm.

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Monk Bond

A variant of Flemish Bond, with two stretchers between the headers in each row, and the headers centred over the join between the two stretchers in the row below.

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Broken Basket Weave

This pattern was contributed by Josh L. Link who came up with it independently, and who calls it “Broken Basket Weave”. He was inspired by Della Robbia. He wrote “If you know what the correct name of [this] bond … I would like to

know. Until someone corrects me on the name I am claiming it for my

own. But with all of the genius craftsmen from the past I would say I

am guilty of wishful thinking.”

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