A Beginner's Guide to Visible Mending

Bring New LIfe to Old Clothes

Shelley Zetuni

Description

Bring new life to old clothes or thrift-store finds and create your sustainable wardrobe. This brilliant handbook introduces various mending techniques and includes 20 projects.

First, there is a guide to all the tools you’ll need, from hand-sewing needles to darning discs and mushrooms. Then explore different methods of mending, with detailed step-by-step guides, followed by easy projects to put your skills into practice. Learn how to create vibrant patterns with darning, strengthen and embellish with sashiko-style stitching, cover stains with needle felting and handmade patches and much more.

Throughout, you’ll find advice on choosing colours, threads and materials, and how to incorporate a visible mend into the existing style of a garment or use it to give the item a complete refresh. The 20 beautiful projects include adding needle-felted embellishments to a scarf, repairing a denim jacket with sashiko, patching a hole in fine silk fabric and adding colourful darning to a sweater.

Details

  • Format
    Paperback
  • Pages
    128
  • Size
    275 x 215mm
  • Publisher
    Cico Books
  • ISBN
    9781800656406
Stock Code
260589
Our Price
$39.99
4 in stock for immediate dispatch
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