Yet another underpatch/ sashiko arrangement, this time protecting/embellishing the knee of a Maison Martin Margiela legging I love that had laddered because, honestly, this stuff... View full details
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”Mendology” meetup with Kate Sekules, Bridget Harvey & Barley Massey by Emma Mathews October 3rd 2023 At Fabrications Hackney A mending discussion moderated by Emma... View full details
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
I got this angora mix cableknit sweater in about 1990 and it's nothing special, it's just: I love it. So the two holes had to... View full details
Every fifteenth of the month for the first fifteen years of this century, rain or shine, Michael Swaine trundled his salvaged treadle machine on a... View full details
Miriam Dym, based in California, is mainly occupied in designing and printing fabrics these days, but among her many textile operations is the Logo Removal... View full details
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
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
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
Now Is When We All Learn to Darn Our Socks Again by Steven Kurutz March 12, 2020 "Only a few generations ago, socks were... View full details
Swap Till You Drop By Christine Muhlke February 19, 2010 I think this was the first piece of press Refashioner got: short. But perfect. If... View full details
Let’s Talk About Socks, Baby by Dan Koeppel May 29, 2020 "...Repairing your own socks can seem daunting, but it’s fairly easy. You can buy... View full details
Visible Mending with Kate Sekules on NHK evening News @ New York, Dec 16 2022 (excerpt) ... View full details
Thrifting, mending, and how to be sustainably fashionable by Jenn White (host) March 23, 2023 Buying new clothes can fix us, make us more stylish,... View full details
Mending Is The Next (Radical And Accessible) Movement In Sustainable Fashion by Jasmin Malik Chua March 9, 2021 '...Mending has been around as long as... View full details
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
This blanket is THE blanket, the one thrown over me in the car on make-the-baby-go-to-sleep-already drives, that came on every trip ever, and finally retired indoors... View full details
KATE SEKULES: writer, mending educator, activist, and historian by Emily Stochl September 28, 2020 Today I’m speaking with Kate Sekules, the author of MEND! A... View full details
Pre-Loved Podcast: LIVE from Dusty Rose Vintage by Emily Stochl December 28, 2022 "I’m joined by Maresa, the owner of Dusty Rose Vintage and Gold... View full details
Ribbed web stitch: it's one of those lovely detatched stitches you can stick over a hole, even one of reasonable size. First, here's a trio... View full details
This is crazy crochet, like crazy paving, since there was no pattern and I made it up as I went along. I had not picked up... View full details
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I like to have many and various bits of trim to hand, not for the traditional use of edging, but more for attaching in middles, covering or... View full details
Evil in the Wardrobe By Kate SekulesSeptember / October 2021 I wrote this very potted miniature version of my masters thesis, about late-19th century stocking darns, for Selvedge... View full details
Meet Kate Sekules by Maria Theoharous February 2022 "...Since we are all still stuck at home I especially loudly want to invite you to the #MendMarch party... View full details
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
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Metallics are often hard to work with; they spring back, don't lie flat, won't knot, or knot too much. This Camelot by Columbia Minerva Guaranteed Tarnish... View full details
This top may be the only thing I ever bought at Heathrow, early 1990s. I paid too much and, since I bought it for an... View full details
I'd gone off this Alice & Olivia fringed slouch cardi but then was desperate to darn and this was all I had to hand. I needlewove somewhat... View full details
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 details
You might have heard of Dutch-born, UK-based Tom van Deijnen's alter ego, tomofholland: he practically invented Visible Mending--or at least coined the hashtag on Instagram.... View full details
Visible Mending Is an Act of Rebellion Against the Fashion Industry by Katherine Martinko August 6, 2020 "...Kate Sekules is a well-known advocate for visible... View full details
How pleased was I when Scott requested some visible mending on his favorite Patagonia cashmere zip cardi? He'd been listening after all! I thought I'd do... View full details
Well it's the first one I did that I still own. I was about 18 when this kingfisher blue silk shantung shirt started to split along... View full details
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
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 details
I got this Golden Goose cardi (cult brand, made in Venice, very pricey) in a consigment place in a quaint market town in East Anglia, then promptly... View full details
Excuse me, this is not news to real crafters, but wool filling a.k.a. needle felting. What? The single easiest way to VM ever. And what fun!... View full details
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
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