(French, "glass paste") A material produced by grinding glass into a fine powder, adding a binder to create a paste, and adding a fluxing medium to facilitate melting. The paste is brushed or tamped into the mold, dried, and fused by firing. After annealing, the object is removed from the mold and finished.
Pate de Verre ("paste of glass") is the technique of making solid glass objects from crushed glass or glass frit. A glass “paste” of finely crushed glass is mixed, heated, poured into a mold, annealed or cooled, and ultimately freed from the mold. Similar to cast sculpture.