A hands-on manual and a history and celebration of clothes tending-and it's remarkable resurgence as art form, political statement, and path to healing the planet.
Kate Sekules 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 Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times, 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.
Praise for MEND!
"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?)." —BookPage (starred)
"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 want 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." —Treehugger.com
"Both practical and political, with a directory of menders whose
work Sekules reveres, Mend! 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." —Shelf
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