Ceramic Vase Broken Clay

This tutorial may assist you in mending and cementing your broken ceramic or pottery using easily available tools and materials saving you the cost of professional repair.

Ceramic vase broken clay.

Kintsugi 金継ぎ golden joinery also known as kintsukuroi 金繕い golden repair is the japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold silver or platinum a method similar to the maki e technique. With modern adhesives fillers paints and cold glaze it s possible to perform seamless repairs to damaged ceramic and pottery objects. Broken antique clay pot or traditional jar on abandoned hut. The only way to restore such an object is by using cold materials and process.

The old clay pot in top view. By repairing broken ceramics it s possible to give a new lease of life to pottery that becomes even more refined thanks to its scars. Examine the vase to determine the extent of the damage. Bell made out of mud.

The first step to fix broken pottery or a ceramic object is by mending the pieces with two part epoxy adhesive. Cementing filling painting and cold glazing broken porcelain china with missing pieces. Broken clay vase isolated on white background. As a philosophy it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object rather than something.

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