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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Darning is also teaching me to enjoy a private, personal satisfaction. Concealed within shoes, undetectable (I hope) to feet, these are functional fixes. Each mend contains its own small beauty, but ...

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.

“It’s like losing a family member," says Manmeet Kaur Bindra, her five friends nodding in agreement. The neighbours in Delhi’s Kalkaji are discussing the locality’s darner or rafugar, Wasim Khan, who ...

Darning clothes work requires meticulousness, ingenuity and patience, and thanks to that, it brings a decent income for the 72-year-old craftwoman in Hanoi. Just a few steps away from the bustling ...

''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 ...