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CLOTHES REPAIR TECHNIQUES - INTRODUCTION TO VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE MENDING
Time Frame: One 3 hour session. If you have a large mending pile or a very complicated job to do you will have to continue at home or enrol onto another similar session.
Suitability: Beginners to medium sewers
Important: You will need to come with a pile of your own or your family's clothes you want to mend. This will allow the group to learn various mending techniques at a time. If you don't have anything to mend to bring with you this course might not be for you at the moment. Collect a mending pile first! 🙂
Skills to be learned: We will start with basic fabric knowledge - types of fabrics, weaves and their importance for choosing a repair technique. I will take you through several techniques for mending woven and knitted fabrics, share various mending traditions from around the world. We will discuss and try our hands on beautiful Japanese art of Sashiko darning. If you are more experienced sewer I can challenge you to try your hands on the art of invisible darning. 🙂
Skills learned at this course will vary from group to group as we will be learning through projects you will bring with you.
Description: We are who we are thanks to our experiences. They can be sad and traumatic, but also can be comforting, uplifting and filled with happiness. We don’t carry all our memories in a clear form around in our head all the time, but they’re there, lurking – all they need is a trigger to bring them out. And very often clothes are such triggers. With the help of clothes that belonged to you for quite a while happy memories can be re-visited and preserved.
Every piece of clothing has a memory. Memory of people holding, touching or wearing it, memory of their emotions. Memories make clothes become alive, making them more interesting, more relevant and imbued with meaning. Every individual that interacts with a a piece of clothing adds their own interpretation and meaning. The interlinking of these memories and views gives the garment a new identity, a “soul” almost, something that sums up the essence of it. Thus clothing cease to simply be a thing but become something of significance and often symbolise more than their inherent nature, and this is preserved over the years.
By throwing away our old clothes we throw away our precious memories… This course will offer you the opportunity to save your precious memories from being discarded by repairing them instead.
You will need to bring your own clothes you want to mend to make this course really personalised. I will not be able to provide you clothes for mending here 🙂 So if you don't have any mending piles in your house this course might not be for you right now.
Please Note: You will need to email me the list of items you are planning to bring to the session at least s few days before, so that I know which materials to prepare for you to be able to complete the job.
Price: $80
CONTACT ME to enquire about enrolment possibility.
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