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Bamboo and wooden slips (Chinese: 简牍; pinyin: jiǎndú) were the main media for writing documents in China before the widespread introduction of paper during the first two centuries AD. (Silk was occasionally used, for example in the Chu Silk Manuscript, but was prohibitively expensive for most documents.)The earliest surviving examples of wood or bamboo slips date from the 5th century BC during the Warring States period. However, references in earlier texts surviving on other media make it clear that some precursor of these Warring States period bamboo slips was in use as early as the late Shang period (from about 1250 BC). Bamboo or wooden strips were the standard writing material during the Han dynasty and excavated examples have been found in abundance. Subsequently, the invention of paper by Cai Lun during the Han dynasty began to displace bamboo and wooden strips from mainstream uses, and by the 4th century AD bamboo had been largely abandoned as a medium for writing in China.
The long, narrow strips of wood or bamboo typically carry a single column of brush-written text each, with space for several tens of visually complex ancient Chinese characters. Each strip of wood or bamboo is said to be as long as a chopstick and as wide as two. For longer texts, many slips were sewn together with hemp, silk, or leather and used to make a kind of folding book, called jiance or jiandu.The custom of interring books made of the durable bamboo strips in royal tombs has preserved many works in their original form through the centuries. An important early find was the Jizhong discovery in 279 AD of a tomb of a king of Wei, though the original recovered strips have since disappeared. Several caches of great importance have been found in recent years.
Hi Guys i’m going to be tiling over skimmed plaster walls in a kitchen for first time. (first time over bare plaster)
Do i need to prime the walls with anything? I use rapid set mapei wall tile adhesive and the brick slips will be made of sand and cement not clay. So basically concrete based...
Hi there everyone. What a fantastic forum. I have taken out the bathroom in our 1930s bungalow. The floor was tiled, and well stuck down. Removing the tiles has revealed a layer of bitumen painted onto concrete. The floor is solid and isn't likely to move. My question is this...what kind of...
Having decided I was bored of a living room devoid of personality, I decided I wanted to go with the Victorian library look. A big part of that is having a false chimney breast installed to replace the hard wired fire suite and having the chamber of said chimney breast tiled with brick slips. As...
Hi Tilers, this is my first question on this forum and I've got a few different areas to cover!
I am a DIYer, working on renovating a kitchen, utility room and cloakroom/shower room. My previous experience of tiling is using large format porcelain tiles onto cement/foam backer board, on floors...
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I'd like to install brick slips on a wall of my kitchen as a form of splashback. I want to make this as easy to clean as possible (fake tiles are just not authentic enough) so what sealant is recommended for this type of job?
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Brick slips becoming more and more popular. How much as a general idea are lads charging. I normally try to get 40-50m2
Sometimes i wonder if its worthbthe hassle when it comes to pointing up
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Doing our kitchen renovation and would really like to use some brick slips, for the 3 recessed sections (angled to the left, chimney recess and large section to the right)
The wall has been boarded with dab adhesive, with a skim over the top with 1 paint coat over a mist. I did a...
Has anyone had much experience of floor tiling using brick slips?
If so, what sort of price did you charge vs traditional tiles?
Any help/advice appreciated by a newbie!!
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For sale is 200 square meters of brick slips.
These are genuine clay slips suitable for external, internal, walls and floors.
The pictures show a range of different finishes.
Delivery is available, could potentially split into 100 or 50SQM depending
Please send me a private message to...
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The missus is begging me to do our bathroom. I'm always doing everyone else's and ours is ****, she says.
Our house is an old workers cottage from around 1906 and is build with slate and lime mortar mainly then with red brick accents around...
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I got some slips laid at the front of my house and I’m not happy with the job - some of the rows are a bit off, and when I challenged the brickie he said the slips are not cut straight and couldn’t be laid straight so I told him to stop the job. My assumption is despite brick slips being...
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hi all,
Looking for some advice. Tiling 20mm thick brick slips onto 12mm ply wood on the walls. It is fixed very well. I am just wondering what prep people would do and what adhesive you would use. Changing the ply for plasterboard or hardi is not a option.
Whats best place to get real brick slips?
Tried CTD, Topps, Tile Giant and Jewson and no one does them. Could get them online but prefer to see them first.
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Had a customer contact me a month or so ago, listed building, want old looking brick floor.
They have found and bought some brick's cut into slips from eastern Europe, look ok, so gave a price to fix, grout and seal.
They didn't know what colour grout to go with so did a sample board, but the...
Hi, I would welcome some advice as I have got myself into a pickle.
I planned to attach brick slips to a bonded coat in my kitchen however have realised that they will be too heavy to be directly attached so am now considering attaching a cement based back board but am not sure how to fix it...
Starting a shower room on Monday and my customer informed me yesterday she has picked slate brickslips (see pic) as a 300 wide vertical border on the wall up the centre of a 1700 shower tray.. The shower area will be tanked but am a little concerned these shouldn't perhaps be used in a wet...
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I have been asked to tile the insides of an old chimney breast that is going to have a log burner fitted once tiled.
Any hints and tips please......like is it best to pre seal the slips before tiling?.....prefered tile adhesive?.....
Thanks in advance
Anyone wanting brick slips doing should give pjc off this forum a call. His lads have just finished on a job I recommended him for and the work is top quality. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend him again. The two blokes he sent were great and left the site nice and tidy as well.
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Can anyone help!..... I am having a log burner installed and using hardibacker in the fireplace chamber and need to know if I need to seal the boards if using a none cement tile adhesive. The adhesive I will be using is vitcas heat resistant tile adhesive and will be putting 20mm brick...
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I am new to this sight and was wondering what adhesive I should use to fix real brick slips to my chimney breast? I have had to remove my existing fire surround and open up the fireplace for installation of a wood burner. The plaster on the breast is solid but crazed so I thought brick slips...
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