Give new life to broken ceramic pieces and create your own traditional Japanese kintsugi works of art at this one-day class. Based on the Japanese wabi-sabi philosophy of finding beauty within ...

Kintsugi, the centuries-old Japanese pottery repair technique, turns broken ceramics into art using gold and lacquer while ...

Kintsugi is the traditional Japanese craft of repairing broken ceramics with “urushi” glue and gold or silver dust. It expresses the Japanese principle of “mottainai”, a concept for the regret ...

Imagine a beloved object: a cup, a plate or a bowl. Perhaps your favourite auntie owned it, or was it found in another country and shipped safely home? Now it is broken, fallen into a small handful of ...

NARA--When a foreign national is invited to give a workshop on a quintessential Japanese craft technique like “kintsugi,” chances are that person is very good at what they do. Such was the case with ...

In 2023 I visited Japan where there’s an art form known as Kintsugi, which means “to join with gold.” When a ceramic bowl or treasured piece breaks, it isn’t thrown away. Instead, it’s carefully ...

Roughly translating as ‘joining with gold’, the ancient repair technique uses urushi lacquer and powdered gold to restore broken teaware, based on the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi: finding beauty ...

Gen Saratani’s design studio in Long Island City, New York is small, neat, warm. A fan hums in the corner. The light is soft. Decorations are sparse — a gold-lacquered zebra print here, a decorative ...

When Claire Pickard broke her grandmother's porcelain swan, she couldn't bear to throw it away. "It was the only connection to gran I have, other than photos," she says. But Claire also didn't take it ...