It’s just an opportunity for something new.” She and the dozen or so other students in the room make up Pratt’s Mending ...

One dusty family photo album in my attic holds black-and-white snapshots of my mother and grandmother darning their socks in the early 1950s. My mother told me they’d stuff the socks with burned-out ...

Why do loved clothes last? Mending and repair activities help stretch garments into their mature, most-loved life. In fact, it encompasses a larger maker movement and is the substance to Fashion ...

Do you remember denim iron-on patches and visible darning? Just a generation or two ago, people mended clothes, and if they couldn't use something, or if a shirt was far too worn for reclaiming, the ...

Simply sign up to the Sustainability myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. I was walking through the streets of San Francisco in 2000 as a young artist when the idea for a sewing project ...

In 2015 Yoko Ono installed her “Mend Piece,” where shards of broken china, little spools of thread, and plastic bottles of Elmer’s glue were offered up for visitors to reassemble as they liked. It was ...

Chances are that each and every one of us has an article of clothing that we love, which also has a rip, tear, broken zipper, missing button, stain, etc. Therefore, the shirt, dress, pants in question ...