Table 1. Notations for four common brick patterns Photograph 4 Bricklayers classify the most common brick patterns into three groups. Patterns made up only of stretchers (e.g., Running bond and Stack bond) are called Stretcher bonds. Patterns in which courses of stretchers alternate with courses of headers are called English bonds. Patterns in which the courses consist of alternating stretchers and headers are called Flemish bonds (see Photograph 4). The arrangements shown in Photographs 1, 3 and 4 are the prototypical patterns of each type. Other patterns in a group are often given names based on the name of the group (e.g., English Cross bond and English Garden Wall bond are types of English bond, see Photographs 9 and 12).