Kintsugi, the traditional Japanese art of repairing broken pottery, involves mending it with lacquer mixed with powdered gold ...

As part of a new series, "Your Next New Skill," Sun-Times reporter Erica Thompson took a beginner's kintsugi class and ...

Using lacquer to reassemble broken vessels by pasting shards together and coating with gold or silver powder, a technique known as kintsugi. In Western cultures, repairs aim to return a piece to ...

Kintsugi is a simple but precise process that ... Then, it’s onto the fun part of flicking and brushing on the gold powder – around the bowl I went until I had a perfectly imperfect piece ...

Metallic powder is mixed with resin or ... 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 ...

Kintsugi, which means "golden joinery," is the art of fixing broken pottery using lacquer mixed with gold, silver, or platinum. Instead of hiding the cracks, it makes them stand out, turning the ...

Kintsugi is a technique used to repair objects using lacquer and gold. In the mountain village of Yamanaka Onsen, Ishikawa Prefecture, a kintsugi workshop is inundated with repair requests from ...

“Kintsugi” is a traditional technique that utilizes lacquer and gold to repair broken pieces ... resin and lacquer before applying metal powder to their surfaces for decoration.

It was in 2021 that they launched Kintsugi. Translated to English, Kintsugi means joining or mending with gold, referring to the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer and gold.

This became the work of maki-e (“sprinkled pictures”) artisans, who began painting the broken parts with lacquer and sprinkling them with gold. Over the years, kintsugi has taken various forms ...