Kintsugi is a traditional Japanese art form where broken pottery is repaired using lacquer mixed with gold, silver or platinum powder. Instead of hiding cracks, the technique makes them visible and ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Embracing flaws, kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver or platinum. By highlighting cracks and holes instead of hiding them ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Naoko Fukumaru found the art of kintsugi at a moment when she'd least expected to find it. She'd ...

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 ...

Kintsugi is the traditional Japanese art of repairing ceramics with lacquer and gold dust. The idea is to highlight the imperfections of a piece and celebrate its new form, rather than hide its chips ...