What are Frits and How to Use it to Make a Great Pottery Glaze? — Spinning Pots

It takes a lot of hard work, tricks, and techniques to create an aesthetic piece of pottery art. Not only shaping and hardening, a pottery work includes all those processes that are used to add color, effects, and glaze to it. Adding on these things gives your pottery item a high-quality finish along with beautiful results. However, adding a glaze to ceramic potteries using frit is one of the oldest and most popular techniques of glazing potteries that come up with an excellent result.

Glazing potteries with frits takes an interesting process to get accomplished. But before knowing about the process, let’s understand first what frit is.

What is Frit?

Frit has been used as one of the main components of ceramic artworks over the years. It not only functions as a glazing component but also acts as a binder in many compositions of glass face potteries.

Pottery makers use frits not only in one way but in various forms of application, such as binding and glazing. While creating a perfect glaze, frits are applied with the addition of other components like water, salts, pigments, and other necessary materials to get the perfect effects.