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Platinum Powder for Kintsugi 0.3g - Food Safe Kintsugi Repair
Platinum Powder for Kintsugi 0.3g - Food Safe Kintsugi Repair
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☑︎ Are looking to restore white WEDGWOOD tableware elegantly
☑︎ Prefer a silver-like look that won’t tarnish or change color over time
This platinum powder is certified as food safe. You can thus use it a finishing layer on pieces of tableware.
Food-safe Certified
This authentic platinum powder is crafted by a long-established Japanese gold supplier and is traditionally used in genuine kintsugi. This platinum powder has been tested for food safety, and no cadmium, lead, arsenic was detected. If you wish to practice true, lacquer-based kintsugi in the traditional way, this is the gold powder you should use.
Product Features
Platinum keshi-powder is made from platinum and adds a subtle, refined beauty to repaired pieces.
It pairs especially well with white Western tableware, such as Astier de Villatte and WEDGWOOD, but can be used on any piece you like.
While similar in color to silver, platinum has a slightly deeper tone and is more resistant to aging. Silver is often used for Japanese tableware, while platinum is recommended for Western tableware and glass repairs.
How to Use
To finish with platinum powder, it is typically applied over black or white urushi. The order is the reverse of gold kintsugi:
☑︎ Gold: bengal-red urushi → gold powder
☑︎ Platinum: black or white urushi → platinum powder
Black urushi can be made from raw urushi and black powder in our Tsugu Kit, or purchased in a ready-to-use tube of black urushi. White urushi in a tube is sold separately.
Inside this Product
☑︎ Finger-size silk piece (It should be used to dust gold powder over the repaired cracks)
Why This Set Includes Silk?
Many beginners accidentally get lacquer directly on the silk, causing it to harden. Using hardened silk for finishing can lead to mistakes. That’s why we include extra pieces—so you can replace them when needed.
It’s normal for silk to absorb gold powder and change color. As long as it stays soft, try to reuse the gold-covered areas for finishing instead of always using a fresh, white spot. This helps reduce waste of precious gold powder.
The finger-size silk piece helps you minimize gold powder loss and achieve the best kintsugi results.
What is Kintsugi?
Kintsugi is a traditional Japanese art form that originated in the 15th century, and it's been around for over 500 years. When a cherished piece of pottery or porcelain breaks, Kintsugi specialists repair it using natural materials such as genuine lacquer and then decorate the repair marks with gold or silver to make them stand out instead of trying to hide them. Rather, we should allow cracks and blemishes in our belongings to shine and tell a story of their own. The result is an object that's more beautiful than before it was broken, and uniquely valuable because of its history. This is the kintsugi philosophy.
We Are Kintsugi Specialists
Tsugu Tsugu is proud to be part of this ancient tradition—we use only natural materials for our kintsugi repairs. We know where beginners tend to get stuck in the process because we receive so many repairs every day and have taught kintsugi classes for years. That's why our products are filled with educational information and easy-to-understand instructions, along with YouTube videos on the proper way to perform authentic kintsugi. Our goal is to help people around the world successfully perform authentic kintsugi and enjoy a long and prosperous life with their beautiful and favorite pottery.
About Tsugu Tsugu
At Tsugu Tsugu, we are proud to offer kintsugi classes almost every day so that you can share in the fascination of restoring broken pottery.
We believe that there's something special about a piece of broken pottery—it's not just an object that needs to be thrown away, but rather it becomes a treasure once repaired with gold or silver lacquer and put back together. We want to make sure that as many people as possible get to experience this ancient Japanese technique and feel the same joy we do when we see our customers' faces light up with excitement.