From golden joinery to reinforced stitching, these traditional techniques will make you rethink your relationship with the things you own ...

I recently took a course in kintsugi, the ancient Japanese art of repairing broken pottery and highlighting the cracks with gold. The mended piece ends up being more beautiful and more valuable than ...

Kintsugi is the traditional Japanese art where broken pottery is repaired with gold lacquer. The artwork transforms broken objects into beautiful masterpieces. Kintsugi symbolizes embracing beauty in ...

The usual goal when repairing something is to make the fix unnoticeable, restoring an object as closely as possible to its original appearance. Kintsugi takes the opposite approach: Chips and cracks ...

What is broken cannot be mended, goes a popular saying. But the Japanese think otherwise as they embrace the concept of wabi-sabi, a philosophy that strives for beauty in imperfections. Kintsugi, the ...

Kintsugi 金継ぎ is known as the Japanese art of putting broken things back together, like broken pottery, using materials mixed with powdered gold and other elements. Instead of hiding damage, this ...