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Owned & Operated by Potters for Potters
KINTSUGI

KINTSUGI

by MPS
$38.00 - $38.00
$38.00
$38.00 - $38.00
$38.00

BONNIE KEMSKE 

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with a precious metal, usually gold, silver or platinum. The technique celebrates the history of the object and, rather than disguising a repair, highlights it and makes it beautiful

Table of Contents

Prologue

1. Cracks made whole in a golden repair… and Nekowaride
2. Beautiful joins… and kintsugi in Arizona
3. Four historic elements… and a famous temper
4. Materials and techniques… and a collaboration
5. Cracks, breaks and reconstructions: kintsugi in contemporary use… and a visit to Goro
6. A metaphoric world… and a kintsugi repair