Kintsugi Course
Dive into kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with gold, turning flaws into features. This course covers its history, principles, essential tools, and safe practices. Through structured lessons, you'll learn to assess damage, perform strong repairs, apply gold expertly, and make design choices that elevate ordinary breaks into stunning, gallery-worthy art pieces that tell a story of resilience and beauty.

flexible workload of 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This course guides you in confidently restoring broken pottery using time-honoured and contemporary techniques. Explore the rich history and philosophy of kintsugi, master safe material handling, and master step-by-step processes for cleaning, mending, curing, and polishing pieces. Build precision with hands-on exercises, hone your artistic choices, and record your work to create durable, strikingly beautiful restorations.
Elevify advantages
Develop skills
- Master professional kintsugi repairs for quick, strong, and clean ceramic bonds.
- Achieve expert gold application skills with leaf, powder, and accents for a polished gallery finish.
- Develop ceramic damage assessment to identify cracks, fractures, and optimal repair strategies.
- Enhance kintsugi design skills to strategically plan seams, colours, and textures for maximum visual appeal.
- Learn safe handling of urushi lacquer, epoxies, and tools in a professional studio environment.
Suggested summary
Before starting, you can change the chapters and the workload. Choose which chapter to start with. Add or remove chapters. Increase or decrease the course workload.What our students say
FAQs
Who is Elevify? How does it work?
Do the courses have certificates?
Are the courses free?
What is the course workload?
What are the courses like?
How do the courses work?
What is the duration of the courses?
What is the cost or price of the courses?
What is an EAD or online course and how does it work?
PDF Course