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For those of you in the Bay Area there’s a great Kintsugi workshop that’s run out of the SF zen center almost weekly https://stonegoldcrafts.com/ https://stoneg

For those of you in the Bay Area there’s a great Kintsugi workshop that’s run out of the SF zen center almost weekly https://stonegoldcrafts.com/ https://stonegoldcrafts.com/ I got into Kintsugi when my toilet needed repair. It’s a rewarding craft https://thingsilearned.com/things/my-kintsugi-toilet/ https://thingsilearned.com/things/my-kintsugi-toilet/

avtar 2y ago
For those in Toronto :) https://introjapan.ca/inperson-classes/ https://introjapan.ca/inperson-classes/ No affiliation. I gifted my partner an intro workshop pass and she's been returning for more classes since then.
- criddell 2y ago
  How do you discover classes like this? Are there city-specific guides to interesting classes and seminars that you can take?
  - mholt 2y ago
    I'm also looking. The University of Utah has a random one-off kintsugi course this fall but I think it's full already.
  - avtar 2y ago
    I wish I could offer something more useful, but in this case her birthday was fast approaching and I remembered her bringing up Kintsugi in a conversation. I did a search for "kintsugi toronto" and found that teacher's site on the first results page. Back in the day I would have browsed craigslist, but unfortunately it's not as popular here anymore.
kelnos 2y ago
I've attended one of those at the Zen Center! My partner took me to one as a birthday present last year. She ended up being kinda frustrated with the process, but I found it soothing and relaxing, and left happy and contented. The guy running the workshop had us use epoxy and not urushi powder (not surprising; I'm sure all of us would have ended up with severe skin irritation otherwise). The article mentions concerns about food safety; IIRC we were told that the epoxy we were using in the workshop was not food safe, but that it's easy to acquire food-safe versions of it. We also didn't do this in anywhere near as many steps, with as many different treatments for different sizes/shapes of damage. Ultimately we fully repaired a piece in a couple hours, not the several months that the article author took to do it right. (And the extra care and use of the proper materials shows; the final repaired alligator mug from the article looks orders of magnitude better than my work.)

avtar 2y ago

For those in Toronto :) https://introjapan.ca/inperson-classes/ https://introjapan.ca/inperson-classes/ No affiliation. I gifted my partner an intro workshop pass and she's been returning for more classes since then.

criddell 2y ago
How do you discover classes like this? Are there city-specific guides to interesting classes and seminars that you can take?
- mholt 2y ago
  I'm also looking. The University of Utah has a random one-off kintsugi course this fall but I think it's full already.
- avtar 2y ago
  I wish I could offer something more useful, but in this case her birthday was fast approaching and I remembered her bringing up Kintsugi in a conversation. I did a search for "kintsugi toronto" and found that teacher's site on the first results page. Back in the day I would have browsed craigslist, but unfortunately it's not as popular here anymore.

kelnos 2y ago

I've attended one of those at the Zen Center! My partner took me to one as a birthday present last year. She ended up being kinda frustrated with the process, but I found it soothing and relaxing, and left happy and contented. The guy running the workshop had us use epoxy and not urushi powder (not surprising; I'm sure all of us would have ended up with severe skin irritation otherwise). The article mentions concerns about food safety; IIRC we were told that the epoxy we were using in the workshop was not food safe, but that it's easy to acquire food-safe versions of it. We also didn't do this in anywhere near as many steps, with as many different treatments for different sizes/shapes of damage. Ultimately we fully repaired a piece in a couple hours, not the several months that the article author took to do it right. (And the extra care and use of the proper materials shows; the final repaired alligator mug from the article looks orders of magnitude better than my work.)