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"Mending Matters: Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your Favorite Denim & More
This book is a joy. . . . Thank you, Katrina, for helping rekindle our love affair with clothes built to last and hold memories.8221 8212Clare Press, sustainability editor at large, Vogue Australia Join 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, modern, and bold8212but draw on traditional stitching. It does all this through just four very simple mending techniques: Exterior patchesInterior patchesSlow stitchesDarning and weaving In addition, this full-color 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
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