Going to the next step: after the bones are done and a layer of Urushi has been applied as foundation, I now started to fill in with the rougher Urushi paste, consisting of cooked rice, wood powder and some sort of fine cotton stuff. The tricky part here is to get the consistency right. They say it should feel like an earlobe.
This stage doesn’t look very pretty
once that is dried I can cut and sand it down to shape, so that it’s fatter now than it should be is on purpose. The drying time in humid hot Taïwan is about a week. Climate here is very beneficial for Kintsugi. Urushi cures better when hot and humid.
