Kintsugi is a traditional Japanese craft technique that utilizes lacquer and gold to repair broken ceramic pieces ... and mass consumption. She saw new pieces of clothing emerge one after another ...

urged Japanese craftsmen to come up with a more pleasing method of repair. In the 500 year old art of Kintsugi, which translates more or less as ‘joining with gold’, broken pottery is repaired ...

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