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A place to share anything about visible mending, or any mending projects at all! Textiles and clothes take a lot of resources and time to make, now and all through history. Visible mending celebrates the clothes on our backs by taking care of them instead of throwing them away. Feel also free to post non-cloth or -textile (visible) mends! Not every post needs to be about something being repaired, and we accept zero waste fashion and secondhand projects, as they uphold the spirit of mending. Pre-distressed clothing does not fit well here, unless used as a mending example. Mends do not HAVE to be expressly "Visible" if process or before images are displayed as well.

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[Visible mending] - How to smooth the edge of a broken cup handle ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by BruceLee@lemmy.ml to c/visibleMending@kbin.social

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I have a ceramic cup with broken handle. I want to sand it down or do something to make the broken part look pretty and less sharp. It is not so sharp to begin with but still.

Do you have experience with such a material ?

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[–] Xorbius@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

You can definitely sand it down, depending how far off the surface it broke that might take quite a while as ceramic is a really tough material. Then again that should take off the anxiety to destroy anything in that regard. With enough care even a grinder can be used to aid you in this process.
Depending on the desired visibility of the repair you can then paint over with good quality acrylic paint matchinf colours or going the extra mile to take your chances to append on the original design of the cup with some fun little motive, extending the personal story and connection to the piece in the philosophy of kirigami.
However you might decide to do this, I would be very happy and interested to see your results here on the magazine in a follow up post. Wish you all the best with your project.