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- Here is the traditional Japanese kintsugi method.
"Regular" kintsugi uses a fine 24Kt. gold powder. This is ideal for a piece that will mainly be looked at. (The fine gold will wear off if you polish it hard, so this is not ideal for items in heavy use.)
(Sorry--the full, slower version with descriptions is only for my students and customers.)
You can find out more about kintsugi, learn about classes, or commission repairs at www.urushi.info.
Nice video, most videos on Kintsugi I've found were done by 5-minute craft channels using cheap low quality materials and techniques, its nice there's a youtube channel showing the authentic process.
5-minute crafts has me wondering if that paste they used is made from finely ground ramen noodles. 😉
@@lori5353 the ramen noodle trick actually works, but specifically requires using cyanoacrylate super glue, the ground up ramen noodles acts as a filler and catalyst for the glue to set quickly (by absorbing moisture from the air, cyanoacrylate needs moisture to cure), with more volume and rigidity that it would normally have. Most of those 5 minute crafts style videos don't tell you what the liquid they add is they just show it being done as if it's magic. There's a video on the King of Random youtube channel where they experiment with different materials with a similar dust like consistency to flour or pulverized ramen, to see which works. If I recall correctly cinnamon works really well.
@@WatchMeSayStuff is it not superglue being used here? surely the traditional glue doesn't set that fast?
Maybe they are not having you wait a day between application on the video. Lol
+1 this comment cause I literally just came from a video that mixed gold powder into super glue, put too much on the seams and didn’t wipe off the excess. 1 layer application and done.
Wow, I can only imagine how long it takes to do this when there are multiple cracks rather than just one clean break line like shown. Kintsugi is truly a beautiful artform all in itself. Thank you for sharing.
It's a lot faster than remodeling a kitchen, I can vouch for that! :)
It takes about 3 months to repair a ceramic with kintsugi, because of the urushi curing time. Kintsugi is only done on the most precious ceramics or those which hold deep sentimental value and is very expensive because of the skill, time and gold required.
@@TokyoMakes i have some decorative plates from japan that were broken in a house fire. I don’t have a all the pieces but I wonder if I can at least fix one that i have the majority of the pieces to. I wouldn’t use the plate, but it would be nice to display.
@@zellafae apparently Kintsugi is safe for food
@@subratanandy2142 Yes, but read the description
I figured it was more complicated than just mixing gold dust in with glue, but goodness, I had no idea there was so much to it. Nonetheless, it was lovely to watch the process.
あなたは素晴らしい先生です
Anata wa subarashī senseidesu
I saw one video right before this, that had a woman break a cheap bowl and then murder the repair and called it "Kintsugi" ...I am glad you uploaded this video to show the right way it should be done!
Hi from a year later!
I remember her. The "doctor".
All she did was super glue the bowl then badly paint el cheapo "gold" paint along the cracks. Looked worse than a child's effort. I hope she is embarrassed.
@@SmileySeeks :)...Tragic, right? I hope she was attacked by the Yakuza...:D
Made a yarn bowl for my mom in a ceramics class. Someone else's poorly constructed creation caused it to split into 4 pieces. She asked me to do this to fix it - ended up using epoxy and nice gold paint to do it. Obviously nowhere near as lovely as this but it did work.
i would think a good result with epoxy is possible. it would probably behave more traditionally with some pigment as a filler. gold powder is the normal top coating but i'd probably be pressing some gold leaf against the epoxy before it fully sets
I really liked the video but the same looping music for 22mins nearly drove me insane. There's a reason that it's a torture method.
ᵈᵘⁿ ᴰᵁᴺ ᵈᵘⁿ dun
It was actually kind of calming for me LOL. It did get monotonous but never torturous for me :P
That's why god invented the volume control.
@Joey Bouten This was a 5-second loop without any deviation at all. Very different from listening to the same songs. But also listening to the same song over and over again all day is a bad sign.
@Joey Bouten That makes sense, those are songs you want to listen to and that you have control over. A lot of people do that. Listening to a song you do not want to listen to on repeat is unpleasant at best, and is really used as torture at worst. We know the CIA at the very least has used repeated music as torture in the past. Exhibit A: Guantanamo Bay
The hands of a master.
I'm happy this art form is alive and being taught by an expert.
Not being taught as we have no understanding of the materials or the tools. Pity
@@georginachristensen7308 You not taking the class is your own fault
Beauty realizes peace, peace keeps nature.
Do you know ”KINTSUGI”?
The Lacquer of Japanese culture connects humans and humans in the world."Kintsugi" is an ancient traditional technique of restoring cracks and chips in pottery with "urushi" (Japanese lacquer).
Ceramics are made from mountain soil, a natural material, and similarly, the restoration process uses urushi collected from natural trees.
With the addition of ingredients such as gold powder, a new beauty is born. This is the spirit of Japan that has preserved nature and culture.
It is the fusion of "the spirit of protecting and passing things on" and "the traditional technique of restoring things" that creates the "world of kintsugi".
Salam only pottery or glass too ? Thanks
Oh, I was under the impression that it was repaired with gold (as the name implies), not with glue and then powder-treated to look gold.
That's horribly disappointing.
Here I was thinking it was literally repaired by seeping a gold amalgam into the cracks and curing/smelting it.
Either process would be functional, as well as utterly beautiful, as it both would leave solid veins of pure gold running through the entire piece.
The modern-day methods for curing (like using gold fillings in human teeth) would probably be easier to do, but I always assumed the Japanese used a far more talented method like smelting the precious metal with the piece in a kiln. That could be done by applying a powdered gold and water paste into the cracks and placing it in a kiln at a low temperature to partially liquefy the gold and then cool it so it would remain in the ceramic piece, but it would require a life-long expert with extremely precise timing and temperature control.
If this is the traditional method of Kintsugi, I'm horribly disappointed.
That's not "repairing with gold" that's gluing it together, painting the cracks gold, and calling it a day.
@@TheKhopesh There is absolutely no way gold neither gold amalgam would stick to the ceramic (no chemical or physical way to make the two materials bond correctly). Also for the "gluing it together and calling it a day" : japanese lacquer has absolutely nothing to do with modern cyano or epoxy glues. It requires a real experience and talent to work with those materials. I think that a more in depth vision of this art would certainly wipe the "horrible disappointment" you are curently experiencing, it is a beautiful and very complex art, not just a way to repair a bowl with gold to make it a bit fancy.
@@MaesHawkEye
It doesn't scale well in non-metals, but tin/lead and tin/silver solders can be whetted to many (clean, smooth, lightly-roughed) surfaces if they've been properly treated with multiple metal dust impregnations and acid rinsing.
Including properly treated ceramics.
It's just difficult, expensive, time consuming, and in the case of repairing bowls it would require extreme precision casting around the pre-existing ceramic fragments.
It'd take a lifetime to learn to do it properly, but that's exactly what I was expecting from feudal Japanese master craftsmen.
From there, heated (glowing or molten) gold, silver, copper, etc. can be soldered or cast into the negative space between the solder-whetted surfaces.
The west never figured this out, until fairly modern times (1960s, IIRC), but I just assumed the Japanese had.
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Additionally, thanks to modern day technologies we CAN directly bond metals as difficult to work with as titanium to non-metallic surfaces as notorious as soda lime (regular window) glass using ultrasonic frequencies.
Here's an awesome video on that.
/watch?v=WuYdsStS1MQ
Silver amalgam has been used in western culture back in the late 1700-1800s for dental work, but that requires using elemental mercury (which is why it's generally unheard of these days).
Gold would have worked too, but it would be more difficult, expensive, and wouldn't have actively worked to fight off infection like silver does (as gold is a neutral metal due to it's non-reactivity, while silver is well known for it's antimicrobial properties).
But they wouldn't have known that anywhere back then, let alone centuries ago on a very secluded island nation in southeast asia like Japan.
In modern times, other alternatives like Gallium can be used in place of Mercury (as we can use a nonreactive nitrogen gas shield to prevent oxidation), but that presents it's own range of impracticalities.
So many people complaining when they should simply appreciate the work and time put into making a lovely piece whole again using old techniques. A beautiful tradition in keeping something unfortunately most in other places would toss away to get a replacement.
I would love to learn how to do this. To take something broken, mend it and make even more beautiful.
So basically you want to do it from the outside in. Fine, but you can do it from the inside out. How? Look at yourself and your life and kintsugi it.
And then with everyone you meet. Everyone is broken somehow, so you can either choose to break them more or become the glue, or gold.
phosphophyllite 😔
Amazon offers rudamentary kits for this. It doesn't look like it's anywhere near as complex as this video but it may be a good starting point.
Just learn it.
Urushi, the white substance, is poison oak sap. The dark powder is die, usually black or red. Gold is added at the very end for ascetic reasons. All natural glue.
Do you know how the gold dust is applied to the red dye without it smudging?
@@eliomarini2635 skill. The masters often say it takes a decade to learn the skill and one never fully masters it.
This had me mesmerized, I couldn't look away.
Can this work on my parents marriage??
if you find enough gold, possibly
Oof
Prolly not friend
Not if you are the problem. 😅
Oof
It truly is more beautiful after the break.
Making the broken and disjointed beautiful again, scars and all. Marvelous!
How incredible beautiful! You change a broken dish to a piece of art! I love it, how it turns out.
Good heaven's if that was the sped up version....... and it was just broken down the middle, I have a bowl in 6 pieces!
It could have been worse, just do it bit by bit
You seem to miss the point of the process
@@travelingran the polar opposite of the proces lol
Best video and skill for Kintsugi on TH-cam
I've never heard of kintsugi before I watched this video. I love learning about new types of craftsmanship, and I love that you do this the traditional way! I could watch videos like this all day, I'm hooked!
The work that went into this was incredible. Nice work...very beautiful.
Such gorgeous workmanship ❤
you make this look so easy, how elegant
Thank you. This video is exactly what I needed.
It‘s very wonderful to see this interesting craftsmanship made professionally and with love. With every movement you can see even the enormous appreciation for this beautiful bowl. Finished it’s again a masterpiece! The only video here I saw this way. THANK YOU!
A beautiful way to repair something that is broken and make it better than it was 😭
So much love put into such mundane thing making it perfect.
Congrats on making it to the algorithm, i would love to see more of your videos :)
Beautiful work. Thank you for sharing.
the artist KINTSUGI has very nice hands... and his workmanship is amazing and this is just for pieces to be looked at ...
and not only that how about those that has so many pieces....
kudos to the artist.. !!!
So wonderful to watch a true crafts person. A wonderful result
Not the outcome I was expecting. That came out beautiful!
Wow - beautiful!
Beautiful!
I imagine the process is very zen peaceful & calming - therapeutic, if you will
I very much enjoyed watching bc it shows how meticulous the process is, so if you do it, you don't get discouraged bc you are 'too slow' AND the appearance of materials, etc during the process AND the practiced hand gestures during each step.
often watching a tutorial/video gives no feel for the time it takes & what each step looks like during the process or even what to do with your hands, like how to hold/handle/place the piece(s), where to rest hands/fingers/supplies/instruments - this one does - I appreciate that
you can surely tell this is a master craftsman!
funny thing is that I already have broken plates that I couldn't bring myself to throw away...although I didn't know of a safe-for-using/eating-ongoing way to repair them. maybe this is why...THANKS AGAIN!
Beautiful. a work of art!
Very pretty. I didn’t realise it was that detailed.
I wish there were subtitles telling me what the materials are....
You can google “Kintsugi kit” and there should be some online :)
@@LucielStarz123 sounds authentic...
Read the description, this is the sped up version
Stunning!
Amazing technique!!
Beautiful honorable work👏🥰
Because the crack is so linear, right down the center of the bowl and the bowl is basically a solid color on both inside and the outside, I think your choice to make the repair line ultra thin was very well done. It has the proper balance, a thicker, wider line would not have worked nearly so well.
It’s beautiful, better than when it was new with no scars or damages.. it’s really a metaphor for life. The Japanese people and culture are beyond beautiful and amazing…
that is beautiful
Loved every minute wonderful
I'd love to do it. Amazing Art creation
Truly amazing
It's beautiful♡
Brilliant art
Wow! I\'ve always wondered how it was done! Your hands were so steady, lot's of skill!
Utterly Impressed. RESPECT! 😁 👏 🤩 ❤️
I had no idea this was such a big process!
Pensei q a peça seria queimada novamente não fazia ideia que esse processo se fazia dessa forma. obrigado belo trabalho.
so good
Stunning
Absolutely splendid!
at 2x the video looks and sounds very good as well ^^
TRES BELLE VIDEO ET MERCI POUR LE PARTAGE,
Worth the wait
If you could see emotional kintsugi i think my heart would be almost entirely gold lol
I think this bowl must feel wonderful getting such a dedicated treatment...
It’s 2am and I’m watching a guy glue a cup back together for 20 minutes while porn music is playing.
This is the way...
I am literally watching this a 2am lol ( also pretty sure it’s a rice bowl not a cup)
Ok it's literally 2 in the morning. Bed time thanks for the reminder.
Me: *watches this random video at 3:55 am* ✨S U P E R G L U E✨
😂😂
Sublime 🤯🥸😳😵🤩🤩💥💯🙏💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖👍💯👍💚
I love the work of Kintsugi, I tried to buy the various items and chemicals to do it, but I couldn't because My government has outlawed a certain chemical used in Kintsugi, apparently it is Uber toxic, and is completely banned in my country. I'm not sure if this is the same process or not, but it sure is beautiful to look at!!! I love Pottery as well, and Dabble in pottery once in a while myself, so the Lure of Kintsugi is almost impossible to ignore! Great work!!!
Do you think it could be adapted to use other substances allowed? Maybe epoxy resin and acrylics?
All I can say is, WOW!!
So beautiful and precise. Must be expensive to make so it's maybe something you use on broken expensive pieces?
Such a beautiful result, but a lot of work!
wow, amazing. domo arigato kusaimas !, big hug fromo cordoba, argentina
I wish this could be applied to my soul.
Hello YT recommendations!
Also this is really beautiful
Imagine being so broken and you're put together mended with gold,that's what beautiful scars look like.
damn, that was inspirational
yeah that is kind of the point
@@axyn4748 yep instead of trying to cover the scars
it wasnt put together mended with gold though it was mended with glue and made to look like it was mended with gold he used gold dust that soaked into the paint to make it look like it was mended with gold
@@zellafae all he did was cover up the scars
How big should the box be on which the object is dried? I got my kintsugi repair kit and everything is explained well, however, they didnt mention the size of the box
Now I just need to find someone that is willing to spend that kind of attention to Kintsugi up my broken heart v.v
You'll find them eventually. Just don't focus on looking. Do thing you love and they'll find you.
@@rocknrevolt938 That is no joke how I acquired my husband.
Jesus will if you ask Him.
@@skunnath589 lol good one xD
Am wondering if gold was chosen for this originally because it's inert, rather than just cause it's pretty.
Yes, that's exactly why. It's food safe and does not tarnish.
And probably because it melts and bends easily as well.
Yes , originally because it was safe. It all started when a king broke his tea cup and he wanted it to keep drinking in it , or so I have read somewhere.
Nobody would have known it was inert until at least hundred years ago when scientists begun to understand elements and its properties. Gold always have been used for decorative purposes. People have used lead in painting for interiors during Victorian era and did not know it is a poisonous element.
@@subratanandy2142 Shogun actually. They were less kings and more military dictators that, in theory, served the emperor. In practice they were the ones ruling Japan while the emperor wss busy doing emperor things. Like poetry. Or art.
Or writing a poem next to a painting.
Nice
Good
Fun fact:
After Kylo Ren smashes his helmet in ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’, repairing it by piecing it back together with its visible cracks in ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ was inspired by kintsugi.
The music is the same 5 seconds over and over. Wow this is like water torture
If only there were some button somewhere on your device that could...now hear me out...turn the music down or even off in most cases...? Wild, I know, but one can dream. Now if only there were some kind of mute button for worthless comments....
@@firegodessreiko must be crazy to think your view is somehow the only way to be? maybe i want to hear the sounds of the process?
@@leftblank there aren't any though. The audio is only music
That music just kills me. I'd rather hear natural sounds of you working.
Yep. I hit that mute button.
Well you can't. So mute. The sounds would be weirdly distorted and sparse anyway since the footage is sped up. Be the change, mang.
Mesmerising to watch.
Hi!
What is it he uses to grind the Sabi Urushi? I've seen, in other videos, how it is cut off with blades (or "washed" off with turpentine oil). Is it a kind of metal pin?
Wonderful video. It's amazing to see the diffrent steps, and how the gold finally starts to shine. True beauti.
I would say this is like a very small water sharpening stone, like the ones used for knifes (yeah my answer is only 6 months late)
Beautiful, but instructions stop after the 3rd step. What is the small, rectangular stick used after 5:15?
It’s a super fine (over 600 grit) polishing stone. You can use sand paper too.
After you removed the excess glue what was being achieved with the paintin and subsequent removal.
Just learning about this now! Why the red paint instead of just applying the gold? Just curious! Awesome video!
This is perfect timing because uh *cough* accidentally broke my mom's vase now I can fix it
Did you fix it?
I wish I could study this art with your help but unfortunately I’m not in New York 😥 any possible for online lessons?
Skillshare maybe? They have a course for everything I swear
Is this food safe or is the bowl now decoration? Like would washing the bowl remove the gold dust?
What are all the materials and what ratios were used when they were combined
Please add how long it will take to dry for each step.
what is that little stick you cleaned the lines?
Hermoso
Hello what paint its the red one? and what is the sabi urushi?
what are the powders and liquids used? also i dont understand step 3/ wow so he uses gold dust-powder for the gold line finish?
Some wheat, but mostly urushi powder. And yes, he uses 24k powdered gold for the finish
Using gold power called makié over a wet lacquer surface is common for Japanese artists when they use urushi from tree sap to decorate surfaces. The surfaces are usually wood but the urushi tree sap can also be used to lacquer ceramic and metal.
looks beautiful, but if you want to continue using the repaired item, doesnt the gold scrub out super easy when youre washing the dish? do you have to be super gentle?
Check the video description ;)
he could fix my broken heart.
So, what people assume to be gold lacquer is actually gold powder applied onto lacquer ?
is that like a tiny wet stone file?
Beautiful. Is it food safe for hot food? Just curious.
Can the bowl be used for food/drink again or just decoration?
If done properly, it will be food safe.
What did you use to apply the gold dust
What was the nature of the tool doing the paint removal
What are the first three elements he is mixing together? Glue ok but what is the White first and the Pink third?