Can You Eat Off Kintsugi Repaired Ceramics

Once the epoxy has completely cured your diy kintsugi repair pottery is ready to use and display.

Can you eat off kintsugi repaired ceramics. Pieces repaired with kintsugi is still fragile. Sorry this class is only available in sydney. Break a cheap ceramic item on purpose if you can t wait to do a kinstugi repair. As a philosophy it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object rather than something to disguise.

Custom made kintsugi service. It s not recommended that you eat or drink out of your repaired pieces but they make lovely decorative home accents. The history of kintsugi. Wrap the item 2 3 times in a thick towel and hold it 1 2 inches 2 5 5 1 cm from the surface of the table.

If you d like to repair your your broken ceramic by your self we have a ceramic repair course. 1 your pottery is already broken 2 break your pottery yourself 3 have us break your pottery 4 choose pottery from our inventory some are shown below. Please have a look this page. Put on some protective eyewear and thick gloves.

And if you covet the kintsugi look you don t need to wait for an accidental break or start smashing dishes in your. On this page you can read how to fix a broken ceramic mug or plates using the best and most beautiful glue for ceramic pots. We can restore made to order any broken pottery objects using our kintsugi gold effect repair process or 23 5 karat gold as one of the following options. A kintsugi repaired bowl by taos artist robin puro.

Lacquerware is a longstanding tradition in japan at some point it may have been combined. Kintsugi or kintsukori dates back to the 15th century when according to legend shogun ashikaga yoshimasa broke his favorite chawan a chinese ceramic tea bowl and sent it back to china for repair it was returned and fixed but bound by ugly metal staples. Kintsugi golden joinery is the japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold silver or platinum a method similar to the maki e technique. In the humade kintsugi kit you will find all the supplies for repairing ceramic porcelain with gold.

With multiple seams to repair it s best to attach one or two pieces at a time allowing the epoxy to set before connecting more. Please note that after a kintsugi repair has been done to a piece it no longer can be microwaved. If you really want to perform a kintsugi repair grab a cheap unimportant ceramic or porcelain item. Courtesy of robin puro.