Mend! - by Kate Sekules (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"A guide to the art, history, and politics of visible mending--at once a practical instruction guide for techniques, a statement on the beauty of repairing and reimagining clothes, and a manifesto against fast fashion. Part manifesto, part how-to, this book persuasively calls for a new way of thinking and handling clothes, flying in the face of the supposedly life-changing magic of throwing them away. Kate Sekules's message is simple: If your sweater gets a hole in it, don't discard it--mend it! Changing the way we dress is easier and cheaper than we think, and with enthusiasm and wit, Sekules shows you how to fix your garments and make your wardrobe more interesting with visible mending techniques, and help save the planet (and your soul) in the process. The environmental and human impacts of our clothing consumer habits cannot be overstated. When we continually buy and discard clothes, we are contributing to pollution, exploitation, and the waste of natural resources. Instead, we should be buying less and better, swapping, embracing vintage, and of course, mending. Sharp and incredibly timely, Mend! is a push for a slow fashion revolution in which we stop to think critically about what we buy, where it comes from, who makes it, and what it is doing to the environment, and is simultaneously a fun, crafty manual that will inspire readers to roll up their (freshly mended) sleeves and get creative, share their designs, and form radical creative communities to change closets, lives, and the world"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A hands-on manual and a history and celebration of clothes tending--and its remarkable resurgence as art form, political statement, and path to healing the planet. <p/>"For Fans of NBC's <i>Making It</i>, Bravo's <i>Project Runway</i>, or shopping vintage: A sweater gets a hole? Sew it closed... Part history and part how-to, <i>Mend!</i> traces the task's evolution from a 1950s chore to a DIY sustainability movement." --<b><i>Marie Claire</i></b></b> <p/>For thousands of years, mending was a deep craft that has for too long been a secret history. But now it's back, bigger and better than ever. In this book Kate Sekules introduces the art of visible mending as part of an important movement to give fashion back its soul. Part manifesto, part how-to, <i>MEND!</i> calls for bold new ways of keeping clothes and refreshing your style. Crammed with tips, fun facts, ravishing photography, and illustrated tutorials, <i>MEND! </i>tells you exactly how to rescue and renew your wardrobe with flair and aplomb--and save money along the way. <p/>Whether you've never owned a needle or are an aspiring professional, <i>MEND!</i> gives you clear instruction and witty advice, with over thirty techniques, from classic darning and patching to cheeky new methods invented by Sekules, to help you turn every garment into a unique fashion statement. Including interviews with menders, shameful fashion industry facts, a ten-step closet mend, cheat sheets, stitch guides, moth elimination, museum conservator and vintage dealer tricks, and more, this is a book to inspire, delight, and galvanize. Sharp, funny, and incredibly timely, <i>MEND!</i> leads the slow fashion revolution into its next phase, where getting dressed is a joyful, creative experience for all.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Praise for MEND!</b> <p/>Sekules brings a refreshingly fierce voice to an assemblage of topics...A prim sewing guide this is not, and I am here for it. If you want sewing basics, Sekules does offer them, but along the way she will school you on where fashion has been and where it's going (to the grave?). --<b><i>BookPage (</i>starred)</b> <p/>As someone who does not know how to sew at all, I tend to shy away from any mending projects (hence the seamstress to whom I deliver damaged items for repair). But Sekules' book does a remarkable job at making me think I actually could do this myself - and even <i>want</i> to try. A needle is less daunting than a sewing machine, and the diagrams in the book are so clear and simple that I am inspired to tackle my next holey t-shirt. <b>--Treehugger.com <p/></b>Both practical and political, with a directory of menders whose work Sekules reveres, <i>Mend!</i> is a slow-fashion manifesto, a DIY manual and an argument for adding a little flair to any old garment--either by necessity or just because. <b>--Shelf Awareness</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Kate Sekules </b>is a writer, clothes historian, mender and mending educator. A leading light in the visible mending movement, she has shown her work and taught the techniques and history of repair in universities, museums, and symposia, including New York University, Parsons, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Textile Arts Center, RISD Museum, Columbia University Chicago, the Costume Society of America, the Textile Society of America, and the UK Association of Dress Historians. Her writing has appeared in publications such as <i>Vogue</i>, <i>Harper's Bazaar</i>, <i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>The Guardian</i>, <i>The New York Times</i>, and academic journals. She is a PhD candidate in material culture at the Bard Graduate Center, New York; holds a masters degree in Costume Studies from NYU, and runs the Menders Directory on her website visiblemending.com. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.
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