Kintsugi: The Japanese Art of Repair – 3DM Lifestyle

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Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese technique of preparing precious ceramics using gold. Porcelain is valuable, in part, because it is fragile. It is delicate and thus weak. The Japanese have appreciated porcelain for centuries and, although they have surely been careful, tea pots have been broken. What does one do when a prized possession is broken. One can replace or repair it. Kintsugi is repairing ceramics raised to an art form and a philosophy. It all started when an old emperor dropped his favorite tea bowl and ordered it repaired. It was quickly returned to him with put back together with ugly iron clamps and the beauty of the porcelain was gone. The bowl was then sent to Japanese artisans who wanted to make the bowl beautiful again. They realised they could not restore the bowl identically to its unbroken

Kintsugi. The Japanese Art of Repairing with Gold is a technical restoration manual describing every stage of workmanship, starting from the study