Kintsugi SEED Kit
Kintsugi SEED Kit is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
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Delivery and Shipping
Delivery and Shipping
At JTA we are proud of our order turnaround times and work hard to ensure the best possible service.
At JTA we are proud of our order turnaround times and work hard to ensure the best possible service.
We are NOT a drop-shipping company and hold all of our stock in Sydney. We dispatch every weekday, and we are usually able to dispatch orders received before 12pm on the same day. If you urgently require your purchase we suggest that you select express shipping at checkout to ensure we prioritise your parcel.
Shipping Charges:
We have revised our logistics systems to offer the best possible postage price to our customers. All prices are in $AUD.
Within Australia:
Regular Post: $9.50, tracking number emailed to you at dispatch
Express Post: $16.50, tracking number emailed to you at dispatch
Within New Zealand:
We are now able to offer our New Zealand customers $15 flat-rate shipping on orders under 2kg. For orders heavier than 2kg the following rates apply:
<2kg: $15
3kg: $24
4kg: $28
5kg: $32
Express Courier International:
Flat Rate - AU$30 on orders up to 2kg (4.4lbs)
For orders over this weight:
<3kg: $56
<4kg: $63.40
<5kg: $70.75
For orders over 5kg in weight, please email us at info@japanesetools.com.au
Prices for all other international orders are calculated at checkout according to Australia Post’s standard rates.
Please be aware some international countries may charge additional taxes when your order goes through customs. Prices on the JTA website do not include these charges and it is the customer's responsibility to cover this.
Delivery Times inside Australia:
These are estimates only. All orders are sent with a tracking code via our shipping app Shippit, and we recommend you use this to check on your order's progress.
From the date of dispatch we expect the following delivery times within Australia:
Regular Post: Within 3-5 business days (metro areas) or 4-8 business days (rural areas)
Express Post: 1-2 business days (metro areas) or 2-4 business days (rural areas)
Plastic-free Policy:
Japanese Tools Australia is an environmentally conscious company and we endeavour to eliminate plastics in as many parts of our business as possible. Your purchase will be shipped in recyclable non-plastic materials, and we re-use cardboard and paper wherever possible in our shipping process.
Exceptions to plastic-free policy:
Unfortunately, we are required to dispatch some express items in pre-paid satchels and in such circumstances we have no choice but to use a plastic satchel. Please keep in mind these satchels are 100% recyclable. Our suppliers also use plastic in their packaging of some products, and we do not remove these protective measures before shipping. We are considering strategies to eliminate these two remaining sources of plastic in our shipping process. As many of our items are hand-made, they do not arrive to us or to you with extraneous packaging, though this is not the case for all of our products.
Breakage in shipping policy:
We pack our shipments in specialised materials to ensure that our customers find them in the same condition that we send them. If you receive your products in a damaged condition, please email info@japanesetools.com.au with your order number and photos of the condition of the products within a week of collection. If an item is deemed to have been damaged in transit we will replace it with like kind at no extra shipping cost to the customer.If you are unhappy with the condition of your product and it has not been damaged in transit, please refer to our returns and exchanges policy.
Description
Description
Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese technique for repairing cracks and chips in pottery with lacquer and decorating with gold or silver.
This kit from URUJYU is made with natural traditional ingredients such as tokusa plant which has been used since ancient times to polish thanks to its rough surface, lacquer extracted from lacquer trees, pure gold and silver, safe for the human body.
This Kintsugi Kit was born thanks to the interaction with our students of the Kintsugi class that I have been teaching for more than ten years. It contains easy-to-use quantities of materials and tools to be used at home with a text and video (Kintsugi Urujyu on Youtube).
Using only Ki-urushi lacquer, the most natural type of lacquer, made of lacquer sap from which we removed impurities. To repair broken pottery, we mix earth with lacquer to fill a crack, then put some flour and sawdust in order to refill said broken part. The ivory-colored lacquer freshly taken from lacquer trees changes to a transparent candy-color in the air. It turns red when naturel pigment such as Bengara is added. Make your own color from natural lacquer.
Like when we sew a button that has fallen off with a needle and thread, the Kintsugi allows us to mend our precious porcelain items when they are broken. We hope that this lifestyle becomes usual. We made this kit keeping this in mind.
Materials:
Basic lacquer, Makie powder (gold and silver keshi-fun), Tonoko (clay powder), Bengara (red pigment), Sawdust, Flour
Tools:
Spatula, Paint brush, Sprinkle brush, Glass plate, Bottle for oil, Sand paper (#400＃800＃1500), Tokusa Plant, Silk cotton, Pipette, Masking tape, Measuring spoon, Toothpicks and Gloves
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