List of Pottery Terms - F

F

• Faience A form of tin-glazed earthenware (W)

• Fat clay A very plastic form of clay such as ball clay

• Fettling. The removal, in the unfired state of excess body left in the shaping of pottery-ware at such places as seams and edges. (W)

• Fire clay A highly heat resistant form of clay which can be combined with other clays to increase the firing temperature.

• firing. The process of heating clay pottery in a kiln to bring the glaze or clay to maturity'

• Flatware (W)

• Flux. substance that promotes fusion in a given mixture of raw materials. (W)

• Frit. A product made by quenching and breaking up a glass of a specific composition. Common uses include as components of a glaze or enamel. (W)