Kintsugi

All About Kintsugi Brushes

Brushes are a key tool in kintsugi-repair. Getting comfortable and friendly with your brush, as if it is an extension of your arm, makes the kintsugi experience that much more pleasurable and preci...

The Two Principles of Authentic Kintsugi

PRINCIPLE 1: PROPER ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGED WARES The assessment process is vital to determine how a piece should be kintsugi-repaired to ensure lasting durability and evergreen beauty.   Material F...

What is Kokuso Urushi?

Kokuso urushi is one of the top three most commonly-used urushi mixtures in kintsugi-repair. A close third to mugi urushi and sabi urushi. Kokuso, whose Chinese characters have multiple variations...

What is Sabi Urushi?

  Kintsugi is the process of mending damaged, mostly ceramic and porcelain tableware, by leveraging the innate properties of urushi tree sap. Urushi is applied into the crevasses of broken surfaces...

What is Mugi Urushi?

Japanese craftwork used to be parsed out into incredibly specific micro-roles. The bristles of the drawing brush, used for hyper-detailed lacquerwork, is made from mice hairs. And not just any mic...

What is Urushi?

  Urushi lacquer is the sap of the urushi tree. And it is the fundamental ingredient of kintsugi-repair. While "kin" of kintsugi, points to gold, it is in fact urushi that does all of the hard wor...

What is Kintsugi?

While the intention of Western styles of repair are to mimic the original state and make the repaired item look as though it was never damaged, kintsugi highlights the breakages and celebrates the ...

What's in the Kintsugi Kits?

Two years ago, we launched the Kintsugi Kit with the hope that anyone, no matter where they are in the world, can celebrate the unique story of the wares that make their house a home. Kintsugi is a...