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Kintsugi is a traditional Japanese technique for repairing broken ceramics using lacquer mixed with powdered gold, silver, or bronze. Rather than concealing damage, it makes repairs deliberately visible — treating breakage as part of an object's history. The practice is...

When a ceramic bowl breaks, most people consider it ruined. A centuries-old Japanese practice called kintsugi takes a different view — that a broken object, repaired with care, becomes more interesting and more meaningful than it was before. For collectors...