Kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold, is the inspiration behind a new hair coloring trend. This ...

Kintsugi typically refers to the art of using lacquer to repair broken pottery pieces, but Freitas chose to apply the technique to common pieces of furniture, such as chairs, desks and ladders.

In the 500 year old art of Kintsugi, which translates more or less as ‘joining with gold’, broken pottery is repaired with a seam of lacquer and precious metal. Trust the Japanese to ...

Translating to “golden repair,” Kintsugi involves repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with gold, silver or platinum. Rather than concealing fractures, Kintsugi celebrates them ...

Reuse the Broken Pieces with Frosting While you can always repurpose the broken pieces into cake pops, there's another way that lets you have your cake and eat it too: stick it back together with ...

Using lacquer to reassemble broken vessels by pasting shards together and coating with gold or silver powder, a technique known as kintsugi. In Western cultures, repairs aim to return a piece to ...

For the past five decades, here in his studio in central Tokyo, Tsukamoto has been restoring Japanese pottery in the authentic manner of kintsugi, the art of joining broken pieces with lacquer and ...

Rooted in the Japanese art of Kintsugi; the technique of repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer to create objects of beauty, the exhibition offered a powerful metaphor for healing and renewal.

Mending broken objects revives the memories they've accumulated over the years. 00:52 Today, we take a look into the art of mending, in the hot spring town of Yamanaka Onsen.