The creative mending

Extend the life of your knitwear by repairing with colored stitches and patches, and creating a new personal style.

Approaching the art of mending is simple: you can take courses found online on community platforms, or consult the numerous publications (especially in English) that illustrate, explain and provide ideas for mending. You will find in bookstores, including online ones, texts by Masters researchers of secular traditions made current to propose the art of visible and creative mending. A few titles: “Darning: Repair Make Mend” by Hikaru Noguchi and “Joyful Mending”, Visible Repairs for the Perfectly Imperfect Things We Love! by Noriko Misumib.
You can also review the webinr Proposed by Prym in collaboration with LanaOnline created by Martina Zonno of Ispirando, which you can find by registering at the link below HERE.

Understanding that the value of a knitwear, an item of clothing or an accessory goes beyond its shape, its color or how much we spent to buy it is the essential starting point. The objects we come into contact with, that we wear, that we make with our hands, tell us a lot and remind us so much more than they may seem!

They can tell you about who made it for you or, if you made it yourself, remind you of the idea and satisfaction you felt in making it, or the moments and places where you found, tried and purchased it.

The ability to mend a garment we care about and love has the power to preserve the memories that lurk among the plots. It is a great way to extend the life of clothing and live in a more sustainable way: "I repair what time wears out, ruins and breaks, because they are part of me and the way I want to live!".

Mending has historically been an activity and an art that has always been practiced by man and in recent decades its meaning and value had been somewhat lost.
The last generations, due to consumerism, well-being, many wrong models, have begun to believe that manual skills and mending were activities of the past.
Now that an ethical awareness is being rediscovered, with the awareness that respect for the environment, the ecosystem must prevail or at least coexist with the satisfaction of needs, many arts are being rediscovered, including that of mending.

So let's go on a journey to discover the modern evolution of mending, creative mending by learning to recognize the differences between the materials with which your garments are made: cotton, wool, alpaca, cashmere or other, also acquiring a culture that allows us to be able to evaluate the characteristics and qualities that the fibers may have and what is the correct use, value and choices to make.

The next step brings us to know the tools that can help us, starting with the needles, the darning loom which are a tool that helps beginners and facilitates the realization of the darning, facilitating the weaving of the weft and warp of the patch. , or, the classic mushroom or wooden egg that together with the other tools help to create your darning kit.

All these supports, including suitable needles, wools or darning yarns, will allow you to think about darning no longer and not only in the traditional sense of the term but with maximum freedom and creativity. If the art of mending was to "cover" a hole in the most "invisible" way possible, now with creative mending we are the opposite! The mending must be seen, it is a creation, it is a splendid and inimitable application, a personalization that will make your garment unique and original.