On a recent day, a non-Japanese citizen was using a brush to dust cracks in a bowl with gold in an indirectly lit space with ...

For centuries in Japan, when precious tea bowls break, the families of tea masters will often keep the broken bowls for generations and later have them mended by artisans who use a lavish technique ...

Kintsugi is the traditional Japanese craft of repairing broken ceramics with “urushi” glue and gold or silver dust. It expresses the Japanese principle of “mottainai”, a concept for the regret ...

Even after meeting and learning from various crafters across all the workshops I’ve attended, it never gets old listening to their stories and how they came to love their art form. Most went to Art ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Naoko Fukumaru found the art of kintsugi at a moment when she'd least expected to find it. She'd ...

Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese Healing Practice that serves to join back together that which was once broken, while showcasing and honouring the breaks. This experiential workshop utilizes a ...

The ancient Japanese art of kintsugi has existed for thousands of years as a method of mending broken pottery. Now, it’s taking off in the UK as a popular crafting activity, but why? As I approach the ...