Maya blue, discovered by modern researchers in 1931, is not an easy pigment to make. Echoing the color of an azure sky, the ...

At midnight the night before I left for Japan to learn kintsugi, the ancient art of repairing broken ... pasta bowls from trips to my grandfather’s hometown in Italy, little blue cereal bowls ...

Restoring a dish this way can take more than three months – that’s how long Japanese artisans wait before broken pottery is given ... Your kintsugi plate, cup or bowl is ready for use.

In the 500 year old art of Kintsugi, which translates more or less as ‘joining with gold’, broken pottery is repaired with a seam of lacquer and precious metal. Trust the Japanese to ...