What is this?

A LoRA that captures the physical texture of real kintsugi (金継ぎ) — the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with gold. Not a "gold line filter." Not a "crack overlay." The actual material: the sharp ridgeline where lacquer meets ceramic, the irregular flow of gold powder settling into fractures, the contrast between matte broken surfaces and metallic repair lines.

This is not a style LoRA. This is a matière LoRA — it teaches the model what a repaired surface feels like.

The Problem This Solves

Most "kintsugi" in AI art is fake — thin gold lines drawn on top of a surface, like a Photoshop brush stroke. Real kintsugi looks completely different:

• The gold line has physical depth — it sits above the ceramic surface

• The crack path is irregular and organic — not geometric or symmetrical

• The repaired area has a different surface sheen than the surrounding material

• Broken edges show raw ceramic grain where the glaze chipped away

AI doesn't know any of this. This LoRA teaches it.

How It Was Trained

Reference images of real kintsugi-repaired ceramics, photographed at 3 distances:

DistanceWhat it captures Extreme close-upGold powder grain, lacquer ridge height, edge sharpness Mid-rangeCrack network patterns, gold-to-ceramic transition, surface sheen contrast Full viewRepaired object in context, overall distribution of repair lines

Trained with Kohya_ss on SDXL.

What makes this different from Gold Leaf?

Gold Leaf (金箔)Kintsugi (金継ぎ) MaterialThin gold foil sheetsGold powder mixed with lacquer SurfaceContinuous, crackled planeLinear fracture-following lines TextureMicro-wrinkle, light scatterSharp ridge, depth contrast FeelingLuminous, sacred, expansiveBroken-and-healed, intimate, wabi-sabi

Both are in the SHIFUKU Series — physical texture LoRAs for traditional Japanese materials.

Sample Use Cases

• Porcelain figurines with gold repair lines (see sample images)

• Everyday objects — phones, fruit, furniture — reimagined as kintsugi

• Character design — ceramic-skin characters with gold vein patterns

• Abstract art — crack networks as compositional elements

• Product mockups — kintsugi-inspired design language

Who Made This

TextureLoRALab — I studied Japanese painting (nihonga) in art school, earned a Master's degree in Museum Studies (with Merit) from a UK university, and now I combine traditional material knowledge with AI training techniques.

I know what real kintsugi repair looks like under magnification, because I've studied the technique and the objects. That knowledge is baked into the dataset.

Recommended Setup

• Base model: DreamShaper XL alpha2 (works best)

• Weight: 0.5–0.7 for subtle cracks, 0.8–1.0 for heavy repair texture

• Works with: Ceramics, figurines, everyday objects, character art, abstract

Commercial Use

✅ Free for commercial use. No credit required.

More Textures Coming

This is part of the SHIFUKU Series — physical texture LoRAs for traditional Japanese materials:

TextureWhat it capturesStatus Gold Leaf (金箔)Luminous micro-wrinkles, light scatteravailable Kintsugi (金継ぎ)Sharp gold repair lines on matte ceramicthis model Washi (和紙)Plant fiber grain, translucent layeringcoming soon Hamon Steel (刃文)Temper line patterns on Japanese sword bladescoming soon

In the lab (not yet announced): Urushi Lacquer, Nishijin Silk, Botanical Dye, Soot Ink — and more.

Want more textures? The full SHIFUKU texture pack (25+ materials including Mother-of-Pearl) is available on Gumroad.

Follow TextureLoRALab on CivitAI to get notified.

"Style LoRAs teach AI how things look. Matière LoRAs teach AI how things feel."