A Beginner's Guide to Visible Mending by Shelley Zetuni
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Give well-loved clothes and second-hand finds a fresh look with this beginner-friendly guide to visible mending. Shelley Zetuni introduces practical ways to repair and personalise garments, using darning, embroidery, appliqué and other textile techniques to make the mend part of the design.
A guide to tools and materials covers the essentials, from hand-sewing needles to darning discs and mushrooms. Detailed step-by-step instructions explore colourful darning, reinforcing fabric with sashiko-style stitching, and covering stains with needle-felting and handmade patches. Advice on choosing colours, threads and fabrics helps you work with a garment’s existing style or take it in a new direction.
The 20 projects put these techniques into practice, including repairing a denim jacket with sashiko, patching fine silk, adding needle-felted details to a scarf and bringing colourful darning to a sweater.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
Dimensions: 208 × 276 mm
Publication date: 15 September 2026
Shelley Zetuni trained as a couture milliner before establishing her own hat-making studio in North London. She later founded Sewingsmith and now teaches beginners’ visible mending classes and retreats.
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