Granulated colored class, sometimes referred to as crumb glass. Hot glass is rolled in frit to create the effect of small dots of color. A single color can be used at a time, or mixed colors applied to form a pattern of spots.
Glass solder used to join the faceplate and funnel sections in a cathode ray tube
A material used in glazes and on-glaze enamels usually on low-temperature ware. Frits are made by heating, shattering and grinding certain substances together whereby soluble or toxic substances can be made safely usable.
Frit is a way of adding color and texture effects to the surface of the glass. It is small chunks of glass, usually colored, although clear can be used, which are usually laid out on a marver and the well heated piece is rolled in them. The color may be given an arrangement, checkerboard, etc., or just be a scattering of pieces. Frit can be bought in various sizes from sources of glass color or crushed from rods of glass.
Chunks of broken glass the size of raisins to grape nuts, bigger than powder. Can be bought, for smaller quantities, usually made with crusher if color bar is on hand.
A powder used to coat the mandrel when making glass beads to promote the release of the glass from the mandrel after the glass cools and hardens.
A simple technique using crushed glass for a speckled effect within the finished piece. The pulverized medium is poured into the vessel while the glass is in a liquid state. When cooled, the frit is visible suspended in the solid glass.
A partially fused glassy material, usually an intermediate stage in the production of a glaze or glass, or an additive for a ceramic body. It's made by heating together raw materials to the point of fusion. The mixture is shattered by being poured into cold water and subsequently ground to powder. ‘Fritting’ is an important process in rendering lead harmless for use in glaze, but is most widely used in the preparation of glazes.
a special glass used in compounding glazes
previously made glass, ground into a powder and mixed with oxides and oil to give enamel its glass base; this ingredient is important in fusing colors onto the glass body.
A mixture of previously made glass ground into a powder and mixed with oxides and oil to give enamel its glass base. Used in a paste form in Cloissone.
A form of low melting glass which forms the permanent vehicle of aluminum enamels, glass enamels (see Flux), and ceramic overglaze colors.
The painted band around the perimeter of auto glass parts. Protects the urethane bead from UV degeneration.
1 Powdered glass which is melted, allowed to solidify and then re-ground and used as a fusible substance in the manufacture of soft-paste porcelain. 2 The ingredients that are mixed and fired to make glass.
A glaze material which is derived from flux and silica which are melted together and reground into a fine powder. Girl-in-a-Swing Factory(1749 - 1754) Early English porcelain, probably made in London. The name arises from a white figure of a girl in a swing in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Glaze A thin coating of glass. An impervious silicate coating, which is developed in clay ware by the fusion under heat of inorganic materials. Applied to porcelain or pottery body to make it waterproof and enhance colour. Glazes may be clear, opaque or coloured to various degrees. [ See Lead Glaze and Salt Glaze
Part of a glaze that has been melted and reground. A way to render unsoluble and harmless alkali and lead oxide.
A combination of materials that have been melted into a glass, cooled, and reground into a powder prior to being added to a glaze recipe.
The soldering band that connects the plate glass to the funnel glass in a cathode ray tube.
Finely ground glass used as feedstock input for vitrification.
A partial or complete glaze which is melted and then reground for the purpose of eliminating the toxic effects of lead or the solubility of borax, soda ash, and so forth.
Small granules of glass ranging from fine powder to rock-salt size.
A dry mixture of the ingredients required to make glass which are conveyed to the furnace and sprinkled into the molten glass at a rate to maintain a constant level as glass is drawn from the furnace
a glassy frit is composed of silica (found in sand or quartz), a flux (potash or soda) and metallic-oxide pigments. The mixture must be calcined (melted) and ground to a powder before being added to soft-paste porcelain or overglaze emanels.
Glass that has been ground into varying consistencies (from fine sand-like powder to coarse chunks). It is then applied to the surface of the bead, and either melted in, or left as texture on the bead.
Glaze materials that have been combined by melting and are reground to powder to be used in subsequent glaze formulations. There are several reasons why this process may be necessary. Some glaze materials are highly soluble in water. Soluble minerals cause problems for the potter when present in glaze recipes. The fritting process renders them insoluble. Another important reason is to "trap" hazardous materials, such as lead, which would otherwise be absorbed by the potter when working with finely ground glaze materials. See also glaze, grog.
Ground glass, ranging in particle size from gravel-like to a fine powder. Frit is sometimes used as a raw material in glass manufacture, and sometimes as a coloring agent or for decorative effect in hot glass crafts like lampworking, blowing and fusing.
A ceramic glass-like composition, melted or fused together. Used to render soluble constituents of glazes insoluble.
A vitreous composition used in glazes and enamels.
Crushed glass. Mixture that is melted, cooled quickly by quenching the molten mass in cold water, and ground to a fine powder. Fritting renders soluble glaze ingredients, such as soda ash, insoluble, and poisonous materials, such as lead, non-poisonous.
In fiber optics, finely ground glass used to join glass to metal or other glasses. Also called solder glass, it may or may not devitrify during temperature cycles.
Powdered glass material, which creates a glazed finish when applied to ceramic tile and fired in a kiln, fusing it together.
1. The wholly or partly fused materials of which glass is made. 2. Ground-up glass used as a basis for glaze or enamel.
A frit (sometimes spelled fritt) is a ground glass or glaze used in pottery. Some materials have to be fritted before they can be used because they are soluble or toxic. For example, lead (used in glazes as a flux) is toxic, and borax, used in glaze as a flux and a glass former, is soluble.