To make lacquer usable as a substitute for hexavalent ... focus has recently shifted towards digging deeper into Japan’s ancient lacquerwares in response to a growing demand from archeologists ...

Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese art form that offers a profound ... repair,” Kintsugi involves repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with gold, silver or platinum. Rather than concealing ...

The technique is the ancient art of Japanese Kintsugi, a powerful metaphor for life where nothing is ever truly broken. Metallic powder is mixed with resin or lacquer to fix pieces together The ...

He explains that urushi lacquer — a varnish produced by the ... are a unique combination of Western savoir-faire and ancient Japanese craft techniques: The butterflies — a traditional Van ...