Turn broken pottery into a whole new aesthetic experience, or better yet, get your partner to do it for you by making them a DIY Kintsugi Kit!
(that’s what I did)
So one half of Social Nesting periodically mentioned kintsugi several times over the course of 2016. Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with a gold lacquer, turning a damaged piece into something new and equally beautiful.
He would show me cool images or videos of carefully repaired pottery veined with liquid gold streaks that did make the once-broken pieces not only unique, but also stunning in a whole new way.
So when Christmas 2016 rolled around, I decided to gift him the chance to do some home Kintsugi-ing by putting together the Barry-San Kintsugi Kit – a wooden box decorated with gold streaks and filled with everything he would need to learn and hone the technique.
I even went so far as to smash a small plate and include it in the kit, so he could get cracking (as it were).
Inside the box was speed-set epoxy, two different gold powders, a mirror (on which to mix the glue and dust), a mini trowel to do it with, and of course, the pre-broken plate.
And before he could get to practicing, this happened…
One of our favourite Rob Ryan plates fell off the wall and broke.
It was was Kintsugi Kit to the rescue! But only once he had some free time and we could open the windows wide to air out the epoxy smell.
And once he started, he couldn’t be stopped. He carefully and majestically repaired both plates with perfect, gold-lustred precision…
…and we were lovingly able to get the Rob Ryan plate back to the Social Nesting HQ stairwell, where it brings us so much joy.
Tags: DIY, epoxy, gold repair, kintsugi, Kintsugi Kit
