N°34 - Sharing 

A repaired piece of clothing, when repaired by hand, has eyes deciding what patch or technique adapts to this unique fault. These faults appear through life lived and are small unplanned symbols of life presented through stains or holes. Each piece is handled in a ‘visible mending’ approach, which expresses the touch of something. This touch often manifests as resources added through working hands and materials, such as leftover fabric or thrifted threads. In that sense, the process is about repairing our relationships with our clothing and the prevailing production practices of the industry. 

Leftover fabrics are intertwined through a hole and hand-stitched around the edge of the patch. Stains are covered with a piece of fabric and hand-stitched. Each presents a simple but time-consuming mending technique showing there’s no correct way to stitch and that the craft of mending is for everyone. Another view of this repair technique, when turned inside out, communicates the feeling of the unplanned stains and holes that appear in life. 

Off-cuts are made using the cutting waste from our production. In this technique, we use the fabric waste as a trim on faulty pieces, intertwined around the hems to create uneven voluminous details, reflecting the overlocked lettuce edges of some of our tees in an exaggerated way.