This story was originally published on May 22, 2023, and has been updated. When Arounna Khounnoraj was growing up, her mother, a seamstress, made and mended Khounnoraj's clothes. She would try to make ...

This week, as we near the end of 2025, the writers and editors of KQED Arts & Culture are reflecting on One Beautiful Thing from the year. ou’re entering your homemaker era,” my mother said earlier ...

From colourful stitches to fabric mixing, visible mending can breathe new life into garments with stains or holes Ask a visible mender to explain why they love to repair clothes using patches or ...

Eighty-five-year-old Nooruddin peers carefully at the tear in the trousers, flips it out and proclaims: “ Theek hai. Ho jayega [Okay. It can be repaired].” He proceeds to ask for Rs.100 for the job.

Step 6. Continue making stitches on each side of the first one, keeping them parallel and spacing them about 1/8” apart. The ends of these stitches should follow the outline of the shape that you ...

Ahsan Mirza, 83, who lives in Najibabad, a small city 200km from Uttar Pradesh that’s historically famous as the hub of rafugars. “It’s like losing a family member,” says Manmeet Kaur Bindra, her five ...

UK fashion industry bigger source of carbon emissions than aviation and shipping A penny on every shirt, skirt and stocking could fund better recycling and repairing in the fashion industry, according ...

''The darning needle is a weapon of war these days,'' prime minister John Curtin told Australians in May 1942 at the height of Australia's greatest crisis in the Second World War, ''use it on your old ...