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ADDRESS ADDRESSES VISIBLE MENDING MOVEMENT
The journal for fashion criticism explains --brilliantly! -- what lies behind our need to sew scars on old clothes...
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Meditating can be hard, but sewing with total attention is almost the same, and it shrinks the mending pile too...
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MY MOTHER MENDING
My mother died so recently that I still can't take it in, and this domestic vignette is bittersweet. Thank god she taught me that stitchery smile...
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Populism spreads like headlice in a kindergarten as we dread the first orange POTUS, and all I want to do is sew up holes in clothes...
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Hand and Lock
Not just any old English embroidery company, Hand and Lock are the Royal embroiderers, makers of all the rich and intricate ceremonial military goldwork that's so... View full product details
Karen Nicol
London-based mixed media textile designer and artist Karen Nicol is quite simply one of the world's best, and best known, embroidery artists. The holder of multiple awards, Nicol... View full product details
Tom of Holland
Let it be known: Tom van Deijnen invented Visible Mending. When I (Kate) thought I'd come up with the term and first googled it, I... View full product details
Celia Pym
London based artist Celia Pym has moved onto different work now, but her seven-plus year project ‘The Catalogue of Holes’ was a collaborative exercise in mending... View full product details
Afghan Hands
How did a celebrated make up artist found sewing centers for young widows in Kabul? That's a story.... Matin Maulawizada, one of the most sought after fashion and celebrity... View full product details
Miriam Dym
Miriam Dym, based in California, is mainly occupied in printing fabrics these days, but among her many textile operations is LRP --Logo Removal Project. Send... View full product details
Latest Mends
Mendstruation
This stripey cotton legging is not the only pant onto which I have inflicted awkwardly crotch-adjacent damage. But given their graphic pattern and close fitting nature, I thought these should... View full product details
D&G Portholes
I wore this marled V-neck to death in the early-1990s, having scored it in the Dolce & Gabbana sample sale, then lost it for 20 years,... View full product details
Williwear 80s Dress Pit
This is one of my most favorite gone-vintage-in-my-closet frocks, a black cotton number by Willy Smith with a voluminous skirt and a mother of pearl buttoned... View full product details
Wrecked Missoni Pant
They are made of that expensive slippery Missoni rayon jersey and I don't know how, but it laddered like a pair of nylons. A great candidate... View full product details
You Gotta Have Faith
One of my oldest tees (a Loomstate organic cotton twisted seam number) had gone holey above the hem. So I backed the area with offcuts from... View full product details
Darns on Pink Miu Miu
Only the world's softest oversized pink cashmere crewneck. The knit is pretty loose so it kept getting snagged and then holed. Darning visibly is all about... View full product details
Greasytee
As a fake grown up I find my fronts are continually spattered with dinner. The more I like a t shirt, the more likely it... View full product details
Burberrys Eye Eyelet
A classic Burberrys Argyle cardi with signature chrome buttons and I got it for a song because hole. Since I select things because of holes and... View full product details
Ooops America Pit Mend
It was the day after the epic Women's March and I was feeling bad about the (not so) United States. This cool 1970s black cotton... View full product details
Hand & Lock Collar & Cuffs
I am pleased as punch to announce that Hand & Lock, the 250-year-old embroidery maestri (the company not the sewers, duh) are now turning their Hands to Visible... View full product details
Moth-on-Moth Action
A lovely and costly Maison Martin Margiela Line 1 rust wool dress got chewed, those little bastards. So why not memorialize them in a thread... View full product details
Multi Mended Pant
Some of my favorites insist on being really delicate, like these fine floaty silk pants that were fine for years but now keep trying to give up... View full product details
Hand & Lock Dress Fix
Amazingly, Hand & Lock, the 250-year-old embroidery maestri (the company not the sewers, duh) are now turning their Hands to Visible Mending despite being way too grand! They are,... View full product details
Ancient Silk PJ Butt
I scored a bunch of lovely haberdashery in Japan and thought I should do something special, so addressed another old fave: this men's PJ pant gone-very-vintage-in-my-closet. It's another... View full product details
Mitts by Eva's Gran
These mitts belong to Eva Kittelsen: Norwegian fashion and textile designer, teacher, visible mender, and 2015 Det Store Symesterskapet finalist (that's The Great Norwegian Sewing... View full product details
And Our Faces...
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos ...By the great John Berger is among the best book titles of all time. So I thought I... View full product details
Terrible Hippie Mend
This ethnic number from the 1970s really doesn't have much life left in it, so I wasn't going to spend too much time on what might... View full product details
What (Blotchy)
I don't know where the maroon blotch came from but it's indelible and it annoyed me every time I wore this Alexander Herchkovitch top I love.... View full product details
Horsey Kaftan
My vintage kaftan was fraying and in danger of shredding. I underpatched it with a scrap of 1950s Western print cotton, stitched over the horse's... View full product details
TOO MUCH DARNING
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Best Vintage French Floche
This dreamy embroidery thread is a silky ivory cotton made in France mid-last century (I think) by Dollfus-Mieg & Cie, that you know as DMC: it's deadstock... View full product details
Feminist Needles. Not
I found these 1970s Virginia Slims adverts thinly disguised as needle books a whole lot funnier before the 2016 election. Still. Hard to resist a... View full product details
Handy Midget Darning Cotton
Listen, this hits all my buttons: you've got a mini kit, neat in a sweet box with excellent graphics. You've got a kitten on it.... View full product details
Hexe & Witch Needle Threaders
I just don't know. Is it some 1950s antifeminist thing? Or do they mean these names in a positive, Wiccan sense? Well either way, these patented little... View full product details
