Mending matters : stitch, patch, and repair favorite denim & more / Katrina Rodabaugh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodabaugh, Katrina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing and dress--Repairing.

Clothing and dress.

Sewing--Technique.

Sewing.

Jeans (Clothing).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2022.

New York : Abrams, 2018.

Summary:

This guide explores visible mending techniques in both hands-on projects and thoughtful insight about how mending relates to mindful well-being. Mending Matters explores sewing on two levels: First, it includes more than twenty projects that showcase visible mending—styles that are edgy, modern, and bold, yet draw on traditional stitching. It does all this with just four simple mending techniques: exterior patches, interior patches, slow stitches, darning, and weaving. In addition, the book addresses the way mending leads to a more mindful relationship to fashion and to overall well-being. In essays that accompany each how-to chapter, Katrina Rodabaugh explores mending as a metaphor for appreciating our own naturally flawed selves. She also examines the ways in which mending teaches us new skills, self-reliance, and confidence, all gained from making things with our own hands.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Dedication

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1 My Fashion Fast

Chapter 2 Mending Tools and Materials

Chapter 3 Basic Techniques and Slow Design

Chapter 4 Exterior Patches

Chapter 5 Interior Patches

Chapter 6 Hand Stitches and Sashiko

Chapter 7 Improvised Darning and Weaving

Chapter 8 Reframing Reuse

Resources

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Copyright Page.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68335-330-7