Description
Sign up for the Slow Fashion movement and make mending your jeans and other garments an artful, joyful, and empowering act of sustainability and renewal, for both you and your favorite clothes.
Mending Matters explores sewing on two levels: First, it includes more than 20 hands-on projects that showcase current trends in visible mending that are edgy, brand new, and bold—but draw on traditional stitching. It does all this through just four very simple mending techniques:- Exterior patches
- Interior patches
- Slow stitches
- Darning and weaving
As well as, this full-color book addresses the way mending ends up in a more mindful relationship to fashion and to overall well-being. In essays that accompany each and every how-to chapter, Katrina Rodabaugh explores mending as a metaphor for appreciating our own naturally fallacious selves, and she examines the ways in which mending teaches us new skills, self-reliance, and confidence, all gained from making things with our own hands.
Katrina writes in her introduction, “When we spend time patching, stitching, darning, or another way fixing torn fabrics, we in the end deepen our understanding of quality, composition, and craftsmanship.” Let her guide you as you repair your best-loved, most-worn clothing and learn lessons about your clothing and how it is made. It’s a process a good way to provide unexpected rewards.
So, think twice before throwing away those well-worn jeans or your favorite sweater. Learn new skills a good way to let you keep them with you for years as a reminder of your time together and the experiences you’ve shared.
