This kit is also great for anyone who wants to have fun matching different finish colors to their tableware —all while repairing it! The story goes that the Japanese shogun, Ashikaga Yoshimasa , had sent his damaged pottery to China for repairs. Some collectors even deliberately started smashing their pottery so the porcelain could be repaired with the gold seams of kintsugi. Attaching each broken piece requires a fair bit of pressure, so you have to wait for the first 2 pieces to dry entirely before you add any additional pieces. If you ever have a choice (which may happen if you glue a middle piece), choose to add the piece that looks more stable.

The Traditional Kit is the perfect solution for anyone who wants to repair their broken dishes but doesn't know how. When you press the 2 pieces together, any thick globs of epoxy are just going to squeeze past the sides anyway, so there’s no real benefit to using a lot of the epoxy. Once a piece is attached, you cannot undo it, so it’s incredibly important that you understand how your pieces will go together. Use the towel as the work surface for your repair to avoid losing any pieces or throwing tiny shards all over the place on your floor.Without touching any of the broken edges, put each broken piece together by hand to make sure that you have every piece that you need. Even more so: instead of focusing on its flaws, the golden seams emphasize the cracks and thus celebrate the beauty of imperfection. The goal of a kintsugi repair is actually to highlight the cracks and damage with a bright metallic binding agent that draws attention to the damage.

The art of Kintsugi is a manifestation of the Japanese philosophy of Wabi-Sabi , which celebrates the flaws and imperfections of the world. Mica powder is made by grinding up mica, which is a natural mineral that comes in a variety of colors. Humade strives to be an inclusive employer wherever possible and we’re grateful for a team of 10 employees who assemble the kit with the greatest care.If you love gold and know that you'll be using it for the majority of your kintsugi projects, this is the kit for you.

While the epoxy mixture will take 12-24 hours to cure, the 2 pieces will stick together after a few minutes. The YŌNOBI philosophy celebrates the beauty of practical objects made by craftsmen and the stories they tell. On this page, you can read how to fix broken ceramic mugs or plates using the best and most beautiful glue for ceramic pots. You can use a piece of wax paper or aluminum foil if you don’t have a good plastic receptacle for this. The epoxy becomes harder to scrape off after 10 minutes or so and it will have already been 3-5 minutes at this point.Drag the blade gently over the surface of the seam you’ve just glued to scrape up any excess epoxy that’s sticking out past the surface of the porcelain or ceramic.

He was the winner of the Paul Carroll award for outstanding achievement in creative writing in 2014, and he was a featured reader at the Poetry Foundation’s Open Door Reading Series in 2015.Kintsugi porcelain repair tells us a story of beauty in the damage inflicted upon a ceramic cup , plate, or bowl . Either cover the cracked surface entirely in a thin layer, or add smaller, thicker lengths of epoxy along the center of the seam that you’re gluing. While this isn’t dangerous to do if you have a steady hand and take your time, there is a risk that you may accidentally cut yourself. Step 4 : Take your thin brush and paint with the gold along the visible rifts of your pottery to conceal the glue with gold. Driven by a sustainable mindset, Humade created the original New Kintsugi Repair Kit to encourage mending broken artefacts instead of throwing them away.