Visible Mending: Artful Stitchery to Repair and Refresh Your Favorite Things
Visible Mending: Artful Stitchery to Repair and Refresh Your Favorite Things
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Our favorite place to start: 35 visible-mending projects and 150+ photos that make a patched knee or darned sweater look intentional, not tired.
Give a well-loved garment another chapter. Visible Mending: Artful Stitchery to Repair and Refresh Your Favorite Things by Jenny Wilding Cardon combines practical repair instruction with ideas for making stitches part of the design.
Explore creative clothing repair
Discover boro stitching, embroidery, patching, darning, and sewing-machine mending. The book includes 35 examples and more than 150 photographs to inspire repairs on clothing and household textiles.
What you are buying
One book. ISBN: 9781604689358. Sewing tools, thread, fabric, and finished projects are not included.
Start with one repair
Choose a worn item you want to keep using. Consider its fabric and the damaged area, then explore a suitable repair method in the book.
Complete your mending kit
- Clover sashiko needles — Gold-Eye needles for the boro and sashiko projects
- Hemptique 3-size scissors set — everything you need to cut thread and patches
- Mending Life by Nina & Sonya Montenegro — a practical companion for everyday repairs
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