Repairing Broken Vase With Gold at Elijah Marie blog

Repairing Broken Vase With Gold. Rather than masking fractures, kintsugi highlights them with gold to tell an object’s story. 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. Kintsugi, which literally translates to “joined with gold,” is the ancient japanese. This tradition, known as kintsugi, meaning “golden seams” (or kintsukuroi, “golden repair”), is still going strong. The broken pieces’ gilded restoration usually takes up to three months, as the fragments are carefully glued together with the sap of an indigenous japanese tree, left. Artisans began using lacquer and gold pigment to put shattered vessels back together. Some four or five centuries ago in japan, a lavish technique emerged for repairing broken ceramics.

Kintsugi, which literally translates to “joined with gold,” is the ancient japanese. This tradition, known as kintsugi, meaning “golden seams” (or kintsukuroi, “golden repair”), is still going strong. The broken pieces’ gilded restoration usually takes up to three months, as the fragments are carefully glued together with the sap of an indigenous japanese tree, left. Some four or five centuries ago in japan, a lavish technique emerged for repairing broken ceramics. 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. Rather than masking fractures, kintsugi highlights them with gold to tell an object’s story. Artisans began using lacquer and gold pigment to put shattered vessels back together.

Kintsugi The CenturiesOld Art of Repairing Broken Pottery with Gold

Repairing Broken Vase With Gold Kintsugi, which literally translates to “joined with gold,” is the ancient japanese. Rather than masking fractures, kintsugi highlights them with gold to tell an object’s story. 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. The broken pieces’ gilded restoration usually takes up to three months, as the fragments are carefully glued together with the sap of an indigenous japanese tree, left. This tradition, known as kintsugi, meaning “golden seams” (or kintsukuroi, “golden repair”), is still going strong. Artisans began using lacquer and gold pigment to put shattered vessels back together. Kintsugi, which literally translates to “joined with gold,” is the ancient japanese. Some four or five centuries ago in japan, a lavish technique emerged for repairing broken ceramics.