From golden joinery to reinforced stitching, these traditional techniques will make you rethink your relationship with the things you own Don’t toss it, fix it: nine easy DIY remedies for stuck ...

Roughly translating as ‘joining with gold’, the ancient repair technique uses urushi lacquer and powdered gold to restore broken teaware, based on the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi: finding beauty ...

The 400-year-old art of kintsugi will have you knocking over your cups, on purpose We sat down with a ceramist based in Kyoto, who tells us about the golden repair method of Japanese artisans - the ...

The philosophy of this Japanese practice teaches us to repair instead of throw away and to celebrate the history that lies in flaws. So much of the most popular interior design trends are inspired by ...

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, so the saying goes. But what if ‘it’ is a) actually broken and b) a treasured ceramic piece? That’s where the Japanese art form of kintsugi comes in. Roughly ...