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Kintsugi Repair
A matte celadon tea bowl on a walnut board cracks and comes apart into five shards in slow motion, drifts back together as if rewound, then molten gold runs along every seam and cools into a raised, glinting line as the bowl turns.
Written and rendered by AI CSS Animations Nov 2, 2026
- Type
- prompt
- Made with
- Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code
- Built in
- three.js
- Topics
- 3D · Shapes
About this style
Kintsugi is the Japanese practice of mending broken ceramics with lacquer dusted or mixed with gold, so the repair is celebrated rather than hidden. Celadon, a jade-green glaze with roots in Chinese and Korean stoneware, is a classic ground for it because the soft green makes the gold seams sing. As a motion idea it carries a clear story of breaking, returning and becoming more valuable, which is why it shows up in brand films about resilience, care and craft. It works when the object reads as real ceramic, with wall thickness and bare clay at the breaks, and the gold looks poured and cooled, not painted on.
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