“Blue Moon,” shown here in a provided photo, is one of Naoko Fukumaru’s kintsugi artworks, based on a Persian earthenware plate from the 10th-12th century CE. Kintsugi is the 500-year-old Japanese art ...

Kintsugi is the traditional Japanese art of repairing ceramics with lacquer and gold dust. The idea is to highlight the imperfections of a piece and celebrate its new form, rather than hide its chips ...

SONOMA, Calif. (KGO) -- In her Sonoma home, artist Maki Aizawa holds a broken plate. "When something breaks, we tend to throw it away," she said. "But we don't have to throw it away and don't have to ...

At midnight the night before I left for Japan to learn kintsugi, the ancient art of repairing broken pottery, my parents’ kitchen cabinet came crashing to the ground. My dog and I slept through the ...

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 ...

Kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending pottery, has inspired designers around the world. By Tanya Dukes Vincenzo Castaldo, the creative director for Italian jewelry label Pomellato, said he used to ...