Can a broken jade bracelet be repaired?

When you accidentally broke your beloved jade bracelet, could you clearly feel that your heart was broken into pieces? However, the breakage and cracking of jade does not necessarily mean the end of hope. With some repair methods, I believe your heart will heal automatically.

In modern times, broken jade articles have been repaired by gluing. Those with good craftsmanship can even "make the inferior products the right ones". Generally speaking, when a jade article is broken, people will think of gluing it together if they think it is not cost-effective or unsatisfactory to cut it in two, or if they cannot re-carve it.

Gold and jade inlay is both a traditional craft and a technique used in the restoration of jade articles. For example, jadeite and white jade bracelets were originally smooth and round. Only when they were bumped and broken would a gold hoop appear on the ring. Some damaged jade and jadeite ornaments can even become perfect and exquisite without a single flaw after being inlaid; its scars and cracks are completely concealed by the gorgeous gold-carved surface and the unified and harmonious combination of gold and jade.

When some jade pieces are broken, designers and sculptors always analyze their original shapes based on the damage and, after some ingenuity, cleverly split them into two, dividing the original carvings into two or more independent or related small pieces. Such restoration, because generally no major discard is involved, reduces or makes up for the original loss. Sometimes the value of the restored jade is even better than the original.

Restoration is a unique and ingenious re-creation with the premise of covering up and repairing the damage to the jade. Throughout their long artistic careers, art masters have created and accumulated many ingenious methods of contingency, remedy and re-adjustment, such as "removing the high and filling the low", "removing the fat and filling the thin", "repairing the bad with the bad", "repairing the broken with the broken" and many other unique skills.

If a jade pendant accidentally falls and is filled with broken parts, it may not break but only have a small piece missing, but it is still "disfigured". So people thought about how to give it a "plastic surgery", and the way was to add fillings. When filling jade carvings, synthetic resin is usually mixed with talcum powder, which is applied to the missing part and then modified in a sculptured manner. In order to make the color of the repaired part consistent with the color of the surrounding jade, the same type and color of raw materials used to repair the jade, such as malachite and lapis lazuli, should be ground into powder first; raw materials of the same color can also be mixed into the filler and then filled.

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