Menders
My book MEND! includes profiles of ten top visible menders, of different styles, with varied backgrounds, and stories. In due course, this visiblemending site will relaunch as a Digital Humanities project, including THE MENDERS DIRECTORY, the first public list of menders who take commissions, so that people who need mends can find the service they need, and menders can be paid for their work. It costs nothing to be in it. If you yourself are a mender for money (or for love, or barter) I invite you to please click the link and fill out the application form.*
Meantime, here are three wee mender profiles.
* Please note, nothing will be published without your permission. This is a preliminary statement of interest.
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
