Kintsugi Repair Kit

Kintsugi is an old Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with gold

Treasure the beauty of imperfection based on the old Japanese art of Kintsugi, meaning gold repair.

‘New Kintsugi’ is the first easy way of gluing porcelain developed by Humade in 2009 inspired by the old Japanese art of kintsugi, meaning gold repair.

The story goes that Kintsugi may have originated when in the late 15th century, the emperor of Japan got his Chinaware back repaired with staples. He ordered his craftsmen to come up with something more aesthetic, gold repair. This art became such a hype that some collectors deliberately started smashing valuable pottery so it could be repaired with the gold seams of kintsugi.

With the ‘New kintsugi repair kit’ Humade combines this lovely old technique with new technology. By messy mending you emphasise the marks and scars of a product giving it a new perspective and beauty while offer it longevity.

Humade Driven by a sustainable mindset, Humade created the original New Kintsugi Repair Kit to encourage mending broken artefacts instead of throwing them away. Even more so: instead of focusing on its flaws, the golden seams emphasize the cracks and thus celebrate the beauty of imperfection. By repairing an object, the product becomes unique and personal

Humade is a design brand / studio where we work on original rethink / re-use solutions with a sustainable mindset.