Having Fun with Glass Frit and Fiber Paper!

Students made colorful wall plaques using fiber paper and glass frit. Fiber Paper is an amazing material to work with- it comes in a variety of thicknesses and has a cardboard like feel to it although it does not burn or melt in a hot kiln. Wow!
In one of our latest projects, I had students trace their hands or make words of their choice and then cut out the shapes. The next step is to lay the shapes on sheets of glass and fire them in the kiln. After firing, pull the fiber paper off the glass and voila!- the shapes of the cut fiber paper are embedded into the glass. The final step is to fill the shapes with glass frit and add some colorful pizzazz! Glass frit is just ground up glass. Frit can be very course or very fine- Very fine frit is called glass powder. We used a medium course frit for these projects.

What an amazing display of creativity! Yeah Fusers!