This is one of my most favorite gone-vintage-in-my-closet frocks, a black cotton number by Willi Smith with a voluminous skirt and a mother of pearl buttoned... View full details
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
Principal victim of the great mothpocalypse of 2017 (husband's closet), this Scottish Geelong lambswool ribbed blue cardi is nearly all darn and is a right... View full details
RIP Queen of Punk. I love my Vivienne Westwood early-90s sort-of-bondage dress, all asymmetrical in charcoal wool jersey with mysterious webbing straps that sort of... View full details
Making It: Let It Show with Visible Mending by Claire Voon March 8, 2021 "Some 3,350 years ago, an ancient Egyptian used white thread to darn... View full details
Kate Sekules,Mender, Mending Educator and Costume Historian by Mary Adeogun April 15, 2021 "In this interview, Sekules talks about her meditational, daily mending practice, and... View full details
Lifestyles: September 2020 by Suzannah Felts September 2020 ★ Mend! I am not a big sewer (OK, I am not a sewer at all), but I... View full details
Radical menders vs. disposable everything by Veronique Greenwood May 19, 2022 "Kate Sekules remembers the shirt well. It was made of lush Shantung silk, in kingfisher... View full details
Adorable little boxes of black or white thread: "enchantillons gratuits" (free samples) given out by haberdashers in the 1910s. The one-inch wooden spools are unused, but only... View full details
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A lovely intact box of a dozen spools of cotton thread (2.25 inches each, 50 meters) in a useful classic taupe, each wrapped in original cellophane. Judging... View full details
The single most recognizable icon of visible mending is Bridget Harvey's MEND MORE Jumper. Londoner Bridget is the first Doctor of Mending, thanks to her... View full details
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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
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We've been collecting balls of deadstock specialized darning thread for ages, and swear they made it better back when everyone used it. (Can you even get... View full details
The 5 hottest craft trends of 2019 by Georgia Coggan November 14, 2019 01. Visible mending "...Visible mending makes a feature out of fixing worn... View full details
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
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Standard issue in every home till at least the 1950s, these sets of darning and mending cotton in "standard shades" are still good for any... View full details
Only the world's softest oversized pink cashmere crewneck: it's by Miu Miu. The knit is pretty loose so it kept getting snagged and then holed. Darning... View full details
Curious Minds: Why is Mending Stepping out of the Shadows? By Domestika, April 2021 For some reason they titled this "No Shame in Mending". I... View full details
Dr Mend dispenses MENDication Rx in surgeries that are sometimes online, sometimes IRL. When this soft-soft, like, 8-ply ivory cashmere Donna Karan developed a hole... View full details
Mend!: an interview with Kate Sekules by April Callaghan November 17, 2020 Dressed: The History of Fashion With over 7 billion people in the world,... View full details
Look at this! Well what do you expect from Karen Nicol? She is the best of the best, so this, her first deliberate Visible Mend,... View full details
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
reFASHIONer: A Curated Clothing Swap by Francesca Granata May 8, 2010 This was my favorite piece about Refashioner, in Francesca Granata's brilliant academic journal "There... View full details
The case for never buying new clothes again by Kate Sekules September 14, 2020 "Mending has baggage. Patched clothing speaks of shame and poverty and... View full details
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
Mending: Beyond Repair by Barbara Delaney Fall, 2021 Behind a paywall, sorry :( View full details
The 70s patchwork sheepskin has not left my back since I got it in 2013 (except in summer), which accounts for why the seams--the many... View full details
Kate Sekules--Any mend is better than no mend by Suzanne Barta March 2021 "...Kate, how come you became a mending expert? I have mended all... View full details
The navy silk shantung on this pretty little jacket had split on both shoulders, exposing the padding (unlike 80s shoulderpads it's intrinsic to the garment). I had... View full details
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When everyone had needles, they cared deeply about which they had, and this Gell Bros All Gold Eye book, at 50¢, must have been the bees... View full details
A 6th-grade boy's favorite denim jacket had got holey and frayed in the back. Ambrosia got a hideous glow-in-the-dark heavy metal t-shirt I'd bought satirically for... View full details
Sustainability Is In Style: Why Co-Designing Your Closet Could Be The Future Of Fashion by Kate Sekules February 2022 "The hottest item in your... View full details
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
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
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
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
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
Recycling for High Fashion By Harper's Bazaar Staff Jul 14, 2010 Have an old Balenciaga bag that is taking up space in your closet? There's... View full details
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
Before there was Fast Fashion, there were cheapo stores on Broadway in Soho that now seem paragons of good practices: these pants are made-in-USA of good... View full details
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
I am a sucker for miniatures so I love these tiny little sets of fine J&P Coats silk "hosiery finish" mending thread in leg-like shades... View full details
The second amazing Karen Nicol VM, on a suitably rare and fabulous garment: the very collectible World's End 1981 Pirate Collection pant by Vivienne Westwood (when it would... View full details
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 should... View full details
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
L’art retrouvé du raccommodage by Catherine Rollot March 12, 2023 The article is behind a paywall (click link in title to register); otherwise, read it... View full details