“Blue Moon,” shown here in a provided photo, is one of Naoko Fukumaru’s kintsugi artworks, based on a Persian earthenware plate from the 10th-12th century CE. Kintsugi is the 500-year-old Japanese art ...

This Nov. 11, 2018 photo shows an example of Kintsugi at the Kuge Crafts workshop in Tokyo. Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese method of repairing broken pottery with gold that creates a new work of art.

Kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending pottery, has inspired designers around the world. By Tanya Dukes Vincenzo Castaldo, the creative director for Italian jewelry label Pomellato, said he used to ...

Guy Keulemans is a researcher at the University of New South Wales Art & Design. The research discussed in this article has received funding from Hotel Hotel, the Molonglo Group, the ACT Government ...

If you search online for “kintsugi,” most of what you’ll find in English is self-help advice that uses this Japanese craft as a jumping-off point. The idea of repairing broken pottery in a way that ...