stone-paste — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. A mixture of clay and frit used to create ceramics.

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   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.

   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.

   Later tiles were made from a compound called “stone-paste”—a mixture of ground quartz, glaze frit, and white clay.