Ju ci, also known as porcelain restoration, includes six steps – reseting the broken porcelain, marking, making nails, drilling holes into the porcelain, fastening nails into the porcelain, and ...

Li Junhang, a Hebei-based inheritor of the old craft of juci, or porcelain restoration, embeds a nail into a broken porcelain ware to make it complete. Over the past two decades, Li has infused ...

Today’s antiques owner--whether of museum-quality works, beloved heirlooms or mere swap-meet finds--tends to be savvier about value than ever before, thanks in large part to the popularity of public ...

A small crack on a thrifted porcelain figurine doesn't always mean it deserves to be shelved, especially when a careful DIY repair can restore its charm.

Q: I dropped a glass in my kitchen sink and it took a chunk of porcelain out of the sink. I don’t want to buy a new sink, so is there a way to repair it? A: This is a job that doesn’t always end up ...

Q: I have a beautiful laminate kitchen countertop, which I like. Unfortunately, my ex-husband burned a spot on it. Can I repair this countertop because I cannot afford to replace it with a new one? A: ...

A porcelain restorer joints fragments of an ancient porcelain of Ming Dynasty in Jingdezhen, east China's Jiangxi Province, on Oct. 18, 2018. Since 1980s, large numbers of porcelain fragments have ...

Porcelain repairers are few in number these days. Now, Baotou boasts one whose name is Zhang Yong, and who has stuck to his job for five years with patience and persistence. Baotou, Inner Mongolia ...