Kintsugi: The Centuries-Old Art of Repairing Broken Pottery with Gold mymodernmet.com

Poetically translated to “golden joinery,” Kintsugi, or Kintsukuroi, is the centuries-old Japanese art of fixing broken pottery.
Rather than rejoin ceramic pieces with a camouflaged adhesive, the Kintsugi technique employs a special tree sap lacquer dusted with powdered gold, silver, or platinum.
Once completed, beautiful seams of gold glint in the conspicuous cracks of ceramic wares, giving a one-of-a-kind appearance to each “repaired” piece.
This is the most common Kintsugi technique, and it culminates in the shimmering veins that have come to define the art form.
Piece MethodWorks restored with the piece method feature replacement fragments made entirely of epoxy.