The jewelry brand Milamore created a pair of earrings and a charm using kintsugi techniques. George Inaki Root, founder of Milamore, smashed and reassembled white and gray mother-of-pearl samples.

Victor Solomon Repairs Damaged Basketball Court With Gold Powder Inspired by the centuries-old Japanese technique of Kintsugi. Jul 30, 2020 ...

A cooking pot from 19th century Georgia, repaired with the Kintsugi technique. Source: Gugger/Creative Commons 4.0 Let me tell you a story about brokenness and repair. Approximately six centuries ...

The kintsugi technique is an extension of the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, which sees beauty in the incomplete and value in simplicity.

But kintsugi (“golden join”) had a more pragmatic beginning. Urushi, a solutionmade from the sap of the Japanese lacquer tree, was first used for pottery repair in the Jomon era, more than ...

Broken ceramics restored by the kintsugi technique are done by Fix by Love. Toon, who described himself as a kintsugi practitioner, said his interest began with his fondness for tea.

Fukumaru’s first solo kintsugi exhibition in the U.S. is on display right now at the Portland Japanese Garden. It runs through January 27, and she joins us now.