Are you looking for a new , original creative activity that doesn't involve knitting, mosaics or pottery? Head to Belleville for an original workshop, led by Delphine, who'll be teaching you kintsugi, a superb Japanese technique for repairing broken ceramics with a gold joint, and enhancing your plates and objects that have chipped badly!
In a small courtyard in the 19th arrondissement, we find ourselves in the heart of a florist's workshop, which hosts a variety of workshops, Delphine also practicing cyanotype, a monochrome photographic process. Before taking your seat, you choose your favorite pieces of plate, with particular motifs or a solid color, as you wish, which our host hunts down at flea markets. Unless you'd rather bring your own broken crockery to give it a new lease of life!
Guided step by step, we discover this ancestral art that requires a lot of patience! As you can imagine, we don't really use gold powder, otherwise the price would multiply, so we opt for brass or another powder with a golden appearance, which gives the perfect illusion. Then it's on to the two-hour process, which begins by mixing resin glue with the gold to form a paste that's applied to the edge of each plate piece.
You have to be careful to apply enough of the paste to glue the pieces back together effectively, one by one, and to remain static for 5 minutes holding them together, giving the dough time to take effect, and the participants time to chat. A step that requires a little concentration and repetition, but one that brings out the gold in the joint and makes the plate even more beautiful than before!
After consolidating our plate, all that's left to do is to brush the new grooves with a little gold powder, to give a more authentic, aged look to the color, perfectly highlighting the traces of the past, the fragility and imperfections of our everyday objects, without hiding them! And that's it, our work of art is ready after this soothing moment, which helps to decompress from the day.
Note that the real traditional method, which allows these plates to be used for food, takes several days to complete. In fact, it's a slightly more simplified version, for decorative purposes only, that we've been experimenting with! All that's left now is to take this plate home and find a beautiful place for it.
If you're from the Paris region, Delphine also offers workshops in Romainville and Asnières-sur-Seine, on your own or with the whole family, as this collective workshop is open to children aged 10 and over! Ready to show off your artistic soul?
Location
Kintsugi workshop
53 Rue de Belleville
75019 Paris 19
Prices
€49
Recommended age
From 10 years old
Average duration
2 h
Official website
marifineb.com
