Kintsugi

Discover the exciting Japanese art form of Kintsugi - a repair technique originally used to visibly repair ceramic objects.

The most common way to use the Kintsugi mould is to repair a broken shard with a varnish that has been powdered or lacquered with powdered gold or silver. The method is very similar to the Maki-e technique. As a philosophy, it treats the broken object and thus the repair itself as part of the object's history, rather than something to be hidden.

Kintsugi is part of wabi-sabi, a Japanese aesthetic philosophy that celebrates the beauty of the simple, the uneven and the impermanent. The three basic elements of wabi-sabi are to accept that: Nothing is perfect, nothing becomes clear, nothing is forever.