stone-paste
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stone-paste (countable and uncountable, plural stone-pastes)
- A mixture of clay and frit used to create ceramics.
- 1997, Ian Freestone, David R. M. Gaimster, POTTERY IN THE MAKING PB, page 114:
- Akin to European soft-paste porcelain, this material, known as fritware or stone-paste, is described in the fourtheenth-century treatise of Ahu'l Qasim as consisting of ten parts ground quartz, one part ground glass and one part fine white clay.
- 2004, Rose Kerr, Joseph Needham, Nigel Wood, Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, →ISBN:
- Mason and Tite propse that Islamic stone-paste material may have been developed by migrant Iraqi potters in Egypt in the +10th to +11th centuries, after some initial experiments with adding powdered glass to clay bodies in Iraq in the +9th century.
- 2009, Erinn Corson, Successful Strategies for Teaching World Geography, →ISBN, page 78:
- Later tiles were made from a compound called “stone-paste”—a mixture of ground quartz, glaze frit, and white clay.
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