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terminology

Pâte de verre

(French, “glass paste”) A material produced by grinding glass into a fine powder, adding a binder to create a paste, and adding a fluxing medium to facilitate melting. The paste is brushed or tamped into a mold, dried, and fused by firing. After annealing, the object is removed from the mold and finished.
Zie YouTube ‘NL Inloggen Schitterend Glas 2: vormgeperst techniek’

source Corning Museum of Glass

alternate terms

Pate du verre, pate da verre, pate de vare