Mending with Love: Creative Repairs for Your Favorite Things
Autor Noriko Misumien Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 apr 2021
Mend, rethink, transform, recreate!
Mending With Love shows you how to apply embroidery, patching, darning, felting, stamping and a little crochet to worn pieces of clothing or household items. Instead of stowing or throwing away damaged pieces that hold happy memories, you can employ these beautiful and sustainable ideas to give them a new life.
With this book, you'll learn how to:
Creative as well as practical, mending is both a source of pleasure and an eco-friendly fashion statement. Instead of buying more stuff with less meaning, this method allows you to hold on to the things that have a special place in your heart.
Mending With Love shows you how to apply embroidery, patching, darning, felting, stamping and a little crochet to worn pieces of clothing or household items. Instead of stowing or throwing away damaged pieces that hold happy memories, you can employ these beautiful and sustainable ideas to give them a new life.
With this book, you'll learn how to:
- Repair knitted and woven fabrics
- Work with flat and curved surfaces
- Artfully repair comfy, well-made socks and gloves
- Make a statement with creative patching
- Fill in holes with roving using felting techniques
- Use embroidery to visibly mend frays or damage from the odd cat claw
- Apply other tips and techniques to torn, worn, or stained favorites
Creative as well as practical, mending is both a source of pleasure and an eco-friendly fashion statement. Instead of buying more stuff with less meaning, this method allows you to hold on to the things that have a special place in your heart.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780804854030
ISBN-10: 0804854033
Pagini: 88
Ilustrații: color photos throughout; 16 pages of diagrams
Dimensiuni: 191 x 254 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: Tuttle Publishing
Colecția Tuttle Publishing
ISBN-10: 0804854033
Pagini: 88
Ilustrații: color photos throughout; 16 pages of diagrams
Dimensiuni: 191 x 254 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: Tuttle Publishing
Colecția Tuttle Publishing
Recenzii
"…a must-have for those looking to shrink their ecological footprint with beauty and warmth." --Booklist
"…[a] clever how-to…Those looking to bring new life to old pieces will find this a useful guide." --Publishers Weekly
"It will give you lots of fun ideas, making mending into a joyful activity instead of a boring chore." --Apartment Prepper blog
Notă biografică
Noriko Misumi is an author, magazine stylist, window display designer and an instructor in decorating and crafting for the home. She works in diverse media--from textiles to rubber stamping. She is the author of Joyful Mending.