As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise. Kintsugi can be seen to have similarities to the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, an embracing of the flawed or imperfect.
Japanese aesthetics values marks of wear by the use of an object. Therefore people tend to keep objects around even if they're broken or damaged. The damage is highlighted as the effects of life, or a life event.
Types of repair:
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- Crack, the use of gold dust and resin or lacquer to attach broken pieces with minimal overlap or fill-in from missing pieces
- Piece method, where a replacement ceramic fragment is not available and the entirety of the addition is gold or gold/lacquer compound
- Joint call, where a similarly shaped but non-matching fragment is used to replace a missing piece from the original vessel creating a patchwork effect.
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| crack repair |
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Staple repair is a similar technique used to repair broken ceramic pieces, where small holes are drilled on either side of a crack and metal staples are bent to hold the pieces together. Staple repair was used in Europe (in ancient Greece, England and Russia among others) and China as a repair technique for particularly valuable pieces
- Think about these repair techniques, during flag process. Could staple/stitch damaged fabric back together with gold thread?
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