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Kintsugi for Clothes - Visible mending anyone?

11/4/2018

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Golden and silver threads sown into old clothes with holes and tired pulled yarns in sweaters. I discovered Visible Mending from those 3 fashion podcasts I wrote about last week, i think specifically, it was covered in one of the episodes of Bande A parte and Wardrobe Crisis. Since then I have been slightly obsessed, and have started to go through my wardrobe to find items I could start ’visibly mend’. Found one with a hole in the bottom of the sleeve hem and you’ve never seen me more excited.
The joy and pain starts now.


Above are some of my handy work so far. 


Di I know what I was doing? not really
Am i confident that I can visibly mend? Yes.


You can be the judge. The last thing I will do is judge this work.
The way I decided I am going to approach visible mending is to think of it in the abstract. I will decorate, I will strengthen and i will think of it like I am painting an abstract painting.


How I used to paint abstract painting, was to use my gut. My gut will tell me this is where you start. This is where you’ve overdone it. When I am painting with thread however, the gut couldn’t be sure if I started in the right place, and there is no issue of ‘mistakes’ in abstract paintings, but in visible mending, when I pull the thread through the fabric and it formed into a ball of knots, that ‘is not’ a mistake, but it doesn’t look good. Most of the time my abstract mistakes looks good.


I have about 3 hours a day maximum of visible mending energy. After that my elbows, back and neck ache. When I illustrate, it normally takes me 4.5 hours before I feel the same ache.


Art and fashion, are bad for your posture.


Here’s the two links I started to stalk about Visible Mending and Kintsugi for clothes.


www.visiblemending.com
www.goldenjoinery.com 


Always taking notes,


Susan
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Brother Sewing Machines link
9/7/2018 10:27:27 pm

Like any other item, you often look for the best one and sewing machines are not an exception. Being able to pick the best sewing machine may not be such an easy task today. This is due to the large number of models and brands available which are mostly contained within the same price range.

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