Kintsugi for Absolute Beginners

The Art of Golden Repair - Mend Broken Pottery into Something More Beautiful Than Before

von Richard Leonard Lorke

110 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

There is a bowl in your cupboard that you have not thrown away and cannot use. This book shows you what to do with it.Kintsugi is the Japanese practice of mending a broken object so that the repair is visible and deliberate, a bright seam tracing the break instead of hiding it. Most books on the subject are photographic collections or essays on what the idea means. This one is a set of instructions. It assumes you have never repaired anything, works through one decision at a time, and gives a measurement wherever a measurement is possible.- Nineteen short chapters in the order you will need them, each assuming only what came before- Six complete projects with materials, sizes, tools, numbered steps, a difficulty level and an honest split of working time against waiting time- The three adhesive types explained by working time, cure time and what each one will and will not fill- How to draw a seam of even width, and why evenness matters more than accuracy- Missing shards, chipped rims and hairline cracks, each as its own procedure- A chapter on breaking a piece deliberately, for readers who want to practice before touching the one that mattersEvery stage is written for a first attempt: what to buy, what you almost certainly already own, how long each step takes and what it looks like when it has gone wrong. The starting kit is four items.One thing is said plainly and repeatedly throughout: a piece mended this way is for display. It is not returned to service at the table, and the book explains why and what the alternatives are. This book was created using artificial intelligence tools. Its text, illustrations and cover artwork are AI-generated. Any people shown in the illustrations are AI-generated and do not depict real individuals.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175640770
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.09.2026
• Größe: 254 x 178 mm
• Verlag: Independently published