Repair Week: Introduction to Kintsugi with Iku Nishikawa
This introductory workshop, led by Iku Nishikawa, was a beginners guide to Kintsugi. Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer often dusted with powdered metals such as gold, silver, brass or platinum. Kintsugi is a very popular practice in Japan and can be seen to have similarities to the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, an embracing of the flawed or imperfect. Kintsugi usually takes several months to repair a small area and decorate with gold. Iku used a few shortcuts to allow beginners to create a finished project, which took only a day to repair a damaged area plus a week of drying time.
Repair Week: Introduction to Kintsugi with Iku Nishikawa
This introductory workshop, led by Iku Nishikawa, was a beginners guide to Kintsugi. Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer often dusted with powdered metals such as gold, silver, brass or platinum. Kintsugi is a very popular practice in Japan and can be seen to have similarities to the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, an embracing of the flawed or imperfect. Kintsugi usually takes several months to repair a small area and decorate with gold. Iku used a few shortcuts to allow beginners to create a finished project, which took only a day to repair a damaged area plus a week of drying time.