We need to be careful not to romanticize the history of mending, a craft that has grown out of necessity. Miho Takeuchi, a traditional sashiko instructor and designer born in Japan and based in ...

While sashiko can be used to design good pieces of clothing and add lovely patterns, it's mostly used for mending. Instead of discarding that torn piece of clothing or covering it with some else ...

The "visible mending" movement is being driven by individuals concerned about the environmental impact of new clothing. But its roots go back centuries to the Japanese tradition of sashiko.

Khounnoraj, author of the 2020 book Visible Mending: A Modern Guide to Darning ... or seek inspiration from the Japanese embroidery tradition Sashiko. No matter what you try, remember that ...

I swallowed my self-doubt and attended a four-hour workshop to learn to repair my clothing using sashiko visible mending. Sashiko is a Japanese stitching style that involves repairing and ...

Google searches for “sashiko” — a Japanese mending technique — have steadily climbed in the past five years. Searches for “visible mending” have virtually exploded. And among the ...

Sashiko is easy, practical and beautiful – and gaining fans around the world. Bel Jacobs speaks to practitioners to find out more. Earlier this year, visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's ...

ELLIOTT: Collingswood-Norris traces the history of visible mending to sashiko, a form of Japanese stitching that's been around for centuries. Practitioners of sashiko take clothing before it wears ...