Kintsugi — no, not that Kintsugi — is the the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery. The process involves mending the breaks in the ceramics with urushi lacquer, essentially gluing the pieces together and filling in any gaps to smooth it out. At the end, you finish off the cracks with a gold powder, which highlights and emphasizes the flaws in the piece rather than attempting to conceal them. The result is a restored piece of pottery or teaware that can now be put back to use.

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