Kintsugi: Quick Facts

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Ceramic bowl repaired with kintsugi, featuring visible gold lines highlighting cracks and breaks in the light brown surface.

A woman's hand uses a small brush to apply gold along the cracks of a broken ceramic bowl, repairing it with the Japanese kintsugi technique.

ceramic cup repaired with the kintsugi technique

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