Kintsugi or golden repair, golden joineryis the art of repairing broken pottery with by mending the areas of breakage with urushi lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold,. This visible restoration highlights the beauty of cracks and impermanence of things. This notebook was created in response to this philosophy of revival. The text block is constructed from bagasse paper that is produced from the residue of sugar cane extraction. golden joinery"), also known as kintsukuroi (金繕い), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with urushi lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum; the method is similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise

Screen printing and design by Kaori Shimizu sutta company, Kobe, Japan. Page count 160 (80 sheets). Sheet size 7” by 7”

Collectors became so enamored of the trhis art that some were accused of deliberately smashing valuable pottery so it could be repaired with the gold seams of kintsugi. It is also possible that a pottery piece was chosen for deformities it had acquired during production, then deliberately broken and repaired, instead of being trashed