Well Worn
Visible Mending for the Clothes You Love
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Mend and revive your favorite well-worn garments with this comprehensive guide to visible mending techniques from the founder of Slow Stitch Club.
From the creator of the popular Slow Stitch Club, Well Worn is a fresh and engaging clothing repair guide and accessible introduction for anyone looking to explore visible mending to revolutionize their wardrobe, whether you are a stitching pro or have never picked up a needle and thread.
Mending is a creative outlet and a slow and therapeutic skill, and author and textile artist Skye Pennant shares the joys of mending by teaching traditional darning and sashiko techniques to help fight against wardrobe perfectionism as well as fast fashion, making for gorgeous visible mending results. Her introduction includes a short history of mending followed by key techniques, fabrics, tools, and materials. Sections are organized by type of clothing to mend: Jeans & Denim, Sweaters & Knitwear, T-Shirts, Socks, and more.
An outstanding gift or self-purchase for anyone interested in refreshing their wardrobe, fostering a more sustainable lifestyle, saving money and avoiding fast fashion, or simply engaging with a crafty new creative outlet, this sewing basics book is all about mending clothes you love, one slow stitch at a time.
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Textile artist Pennant debuts with a practical guide to repairing clothing in ways that emphasize the mending process. "The fashion industry is one of the top most polluting industries on the planet," Pennant writes, suggesting that extending the lifetime of clothes through mending constitutes a crucial means of reducing ecological harm. The detailed overview of tools and materials recommends choosing fabric patches "of a similar weight and fibre content" to the garment and needle sizes that correspond to the thickness of the thread. The handy projects mostly rely on hand sewing, showing how to repair a frayed collar on a shirt with a sashiko patch, mend worn-out cuffs with plain-weave darning, and cover up tears in a leather jacket with leather polka dots. A brief primer on darning, patching, and sashiko provides some helpful tips (sashiko stitches should be "about the length of a grain of rice" and readers should be sure to leave enough slack in the thread when darning to prevent puckering), but Pennant doesn't offer much guidance on how to actually perform the techniques. The wordy instructions and tendency to cover several steps in a single illustration will make it difficult for novices to follow along. This is best suited for experienced sewists with a penchant for sustainability.
