stone-paste

See also: stone paste

English

Alternative forms

• stone paste

Etymology

stone +‎ paste

Noun

stone-paste (countable and uncountable, plural stone-pastes)

1. 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 +10^th to +11^th 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.