Japanese Art Of Repairing With Gold
The japanese art of fixing broken pieces of pottery with gold.
Japanese art of repairing with gold. The name of the technique is derived from the words kin golden and tsugi joinery which translate to mean golden repair. As a philosophy it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object rather than something. Kintsugi 金継ぎ golden joinery also known as kintsukuroi 金繕い golden repair is the japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold silver or platinum a method similar to the maki e technique.
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