Patchwork Society / editorial mending
Clothes worth keeping.
An independent editorial project about visible mending: the materials, choices and care that keep clothes in use.
One mark, one record, one more wear.
Read, then mend
Three ways into the work.
A practical first repair, a maker-selected close study and one historical reference. Enough to begin; no catalogue for its own sake.
01 / Field guide
Make one piece of cloth hold.
A beginner underpatch, the small kit it needs and the limits of a low-stakes practice repair.
Read the beginner guide02 / Selected repair
The back holds the record.
A tan work jacket with a vertical field of dark patchwork and white visible running stitches.
Read the close study03 / From the archive
Missing cloth. Visible repair.
Fifteen darning crosses. Two corner mends. A 1711 study in putting cloth back together.
Read the historical study
For makers
One clear route for work we may feature.
Send a link and a short note about the repair. Work appears only after the maker and editor agree the exact images, wording, links and credit.
Start with a link