Craft & Handwork
Kintsugi
Rejoin broken pottery with lacquer, and make the seam gold on purpose
A kit is enough to start, and the hands-on time to mend one bowl is short, but lacquer cures in layers so the job stretches over weeks. The seam is what matters: fragments set slightly out of line leave a visibly crooked gold line. If the piece is meant to hold food, check the lacquer is the natural kind, because most fast-curing substitutes are not food-safe.
First stepBuy a kintsugi starter kit, choose a broken dish you won't eat from, glue the pieces, and wait the weeks it takes to cure before the gold goes on.
Barriers
Cost to start
$50–300
Going deep → $300–2k
Alone or with people
On your own
Effort
Sitting
Without a teacher?
Best with a class
One session takes
1–2 hours
Where
At home
Why people take it up
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