The Resurgence of Mending Clothes in a World of Over Production
Why Mending Matters, with Katrina Rodabaugh
First published in No Serial Number Magazine Issue 15 Winter 2018
I can remember, as clear as if it were yesterday, sitting beside my mother as she showed me how to darn a sock – watching her swift fingers lift the wool with the needle – over and under, over and under – like weaving, only on a tiny scale. Some of my clearest childhood memories of my mother are wrapped around craft. The little poem we were taught to remember where to put our wool when we were knitting. The patient rethreading of my needle whilst I learnt to sew badges on my Girl Guide uniform. Drawing secret pictures with her tailors’ chalk. Clothes in our house were hardly ever new, and were always, always mended.
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