{"id":273,"date":"2012-02-27T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2012\/02\/traditional-repair-techniques-the-japanese-art-of-kintsugi.html"},"modified":"2015-10-14T00:14:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T22:14:01","slug":"traditional-repair-techniques-the-japanese-art-of-kintsugi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2012\/02\/traditional-repair-techniques-the-japanese-art-of-kintsugi.html","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Repair Techniques: The Japanese Art of Kintsugi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Traditional-Repair-Techniques-The-Japanese-Art-of-Kintsugi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2427\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Traditional-Repair-Techniques-The-Japanese-Art-of-Kintsugi.jpg\" alt=\"Traditional Repair Techniques The Japanese Art of Kintsugi\" width=\"532\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Traditional-Repair-Techniques-The-Japanese-Art-of-Kintsugi.jpg 532w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Traditional-Repair-Techniques-The-Japanese-Art-of-Kintsugi-500x340.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Japanese art of Kintsugi, which means &#8216;golden joinery&#8217; or &#8216;to patch with gold&#8217;, is all about turning ugly breaks into beautiful fixes. Most repairs hide themselves &#8211; the goal is usually to make something as good as new. Kintsugi proposes that repair can make things better than new.<\/p>\n<p>Kintsugi is a technique of repairing broken porcelain, earthenware pottery and glass with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urushi-kobo.com\/urushi.html\" target=\"_blank\">resins and lacquers that come from trees<\/a>. It dates from the 15th century. The kintsugi artist carefully repairs the broken vessel with a sticky resin that hardens as it dries. The resin can then be sanded and buffed until the crack is almost imperceptible to the touch. After that, the artist takes a lacquer that has been combined with real gold and covers the crack.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out: <a href=\"http:\/\/ifixit.org\/1577\/kintsugi-better-than-new\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ifixitorg+%28iFixit.org%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/cityofcraft.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/kintsugi-or-mending-gone-amazing.html\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/nanbanceramics.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/17\/86\/\" target=\"_blank\">3<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadprogrammer.com\/kintsugi-beautiful-repair\/\" target=\"_blank\">4<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/extremecraft.typepad.com\/extreme_craft\/2010\/08\/making-amends.html\" target=\"_blank\">5<\/a>. The first link mentions a couple of DIY-kits using cheaper binding materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese art of Kintsugi, which means &#8216;golden joinery&#8217; or &#8216;to patch with gold&#8217;, is all about turning ugly breaks into beautiful fixes. Most repairs hide themselves &#8211; the goal is usually to make something as good as new. Kintsugi proposes that repair can make things better than new. Kintsugi is a technique of repairing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140,12,142,315,89],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2429,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/2429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}