Wednesday, 16 April 2014

Kintsugi

Kintsugi (金継ぎ) (Japanese: golden joinery) or Kintsukuroi (金繕い) (Japanese: golden repair) is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with lacquer resin dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum a method similar to the maki-e technique.

As a philosophy it speaks to breakage and repair becoming part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.

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