VISIBLE MENDING

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 details

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 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 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 details

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 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 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 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 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 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 details

Best Vintage French Floche

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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 details

Feminist Needles. Not

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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 details

Handy Midget Darning Cotton

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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 details

Hexe & Witch Needle Threaders

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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 details