In Japan, there is a traditional repair method known as kintsugi, where broken pieces of pottery are stuck back together with a Japanese lacquer (urushi), the joints are painted and decorated with gold or silver powder, and the pottery continues to be used.
Kintsugi: the Japanese Art of Mending Broken Pottery with Gold
2 comments:
How interesting and clever of those Japanese. Now I'm sorry I unknowingly just threw away pottery pieces that got broken. I just might have attempted this... Live and learn.
ME too, I would love to try this
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