However, the traditional production process involved in producing urushi is labour-intensive, time-consuming and expensive. The time-honoured way of producing lacquer is difficult because that it ...

The floorboards came from another century-old house my carpenter worked on, and with his help I refinished them with urushi, lacquer made from the sap of urushi trees. I splurged on a new wood stove ...

The process begins with carefully polishing up the damaged area, then filling it with a mix of urushi tree sap (Japanese lacquer) and binding flour. The cup is left to dry and harden in a ...

While kintsugi experts are not plentiful in the United States, you can buy supplies online and try it out for yourself. The traditional method uses urushi, a naturally derived lacquer. Some modern ...

Kurono is the accessible brand of Hajime Asaoka, the sensei of independent Japanese watchmaking. This 37mm threesome offers traditional Japanese urushi lacquer dials within a smooth case. The deep ...

She fell first for a blue shimmery Conway Stewart for about US$670 (RM4,359) and then couldn’t help buying two pens from Bob ...

In 2019, Max Lamb spent a lot of time in Japan – not for a sabbatical or a holiday, but to master the Urushi techniques of the craftspeople living in Wajima, in Ishikawa prefecture, on the northern ...