Reparieren Archive • Talk Slow

Make Thrift Mend

Lotte — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:49:43 +0000

Slow fashion expert Katrina Rodabaugh, bestselling author of Mending Matters, teaches readers how to mend, patch, dye, and alter clothing for an environmentally conscious, reimagined wardrobe

Slow fashion influencer Katrina Rodabaugh follows her bestselling book,
Mending Matters, with a comprehensive guide to building (and keeping) a wardrobe that matters. Whether you want to repair your go-to jeans, refresh a favorite garment, thrift-shop like a pro, alter or dye clothing you already have—this book has all the know-how you’ll need. Woven throughout are stories, essays, and a slow fashion call-to-action, encouraging readers to get involved or deepen their commitment to changing the destructive habit of overconsumption. Rodabaugh has an engaged fan group (her kits are in high demand and her classes sell out quickly) and a proven ability to tempt sewists and nonsewists alike to take up needle and thread.

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Mending Matters

Lotte — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:47:05 +0000

Mending Matters explores sewing on two levels: First, it includes more than 20 hands-on projects that showcase current trends in visible mending that are edgy, modern, and bold—but draw on traditional stitching. It does all this through just four very simple mending techniques: exterior patches, interior patches, slow stitches, darning, and weaving. In addition, the book addresses the way mending leads to a more mindful relationship to fashion and to overall well-being. In essays that accompany each how-to chapter, Katrina Rodabaugh explores mending as a metaphor for appreciating our own naturally flawed selves, and she examines the ways in which mending teaches us new skills, self-reliance, and confidence, all gained from making things with our own hands.

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Mending Life

Lotte — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:42:50 +0000

Mending Life

A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts g, and Patching to Practice Sustainable Fashion and Repair the Clothes You Love)

by Nina Montenegro and Sonya Montenegro

Learn the art of visible mending—a joyful, meditative, and restorative practice—to repair the clothes and belongings you love!

Mending Life, a beautiful modern sewing and mending guide with vibrant, full-color illustrations woven throughout, encourages us to break free from the fast fashion industry by repairing our clothes rather than discarding them. Along with DIY and how-to illustrations and tutorials, you’ll find heartfelt stories by authors Nina and Sonya Montenegro (creators of the popular @TheFarWoods) that encourage you to change your consumption habits, celebrate a sustainable, intentional lifestyle, demonstrate mending as a powerful act that not only strengthens the object we are repairing, but ourselves as well.

Beginners and Seasoned Sewers will find:

Basic Mending Skills – how to thread a needle, how to tie knots, and basic stitches
Sashiko – a striking Japanese hand-sewing technique for reinforcement and decoration
Darning – plain weave, swiss weave, crocheted patch, knitted patch, and needle-felted patch
Patching – the best three ways to patch holes how-to guide
Mending Tutorials by Item – down jackets, shirt cuffs, and linen
Other Common Repairs – snags, buttons, belt loops, leggings, pant pockets, and more
Sewing Beyond Mending – hemming pants, taking garments in, and adding pockets

Extend the life of your favorite clothes and beloved household items with mending with this timeless and practical guide to cherishing and caring for our belongings.

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Make Fashion Better – Mit Stil die Welt verbessern

Lotte — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:52:45 +0000

Deine Mode, deine Zukunft! Ein Kinder- und Jugendsachbuch über Mode und Nachhaltigkeit ab 10 Jahre

Dein Lieblings-T-Shirt passt nicht mehr? Vielleicht freut sich ja eine Freundin darüber! Die Jeans hat ein Loch? Kein Problem, das kann man flicken – und das Ergebnis sieht auch noch richtig cool aus!
Wirf mit diesem Buch einen Blick hinter die Kulissen der Modeindustrie. Weißt du zum Beispiel, wie viel Wasser bei der Produktion eines einzigen weißen T-Shirts verbraucht wird und welche Auswirkungen das auf unsere Umwelt hat? Werde mit vielen kreativen Tipps und Tricks zum Profi in Sachen nachhaltiger Mode – damit du weiterhin Spaß an toller Kleidung haben und gleichzeitig die (Mode-)Welt zum Positiven verändern kannst.

Ein Sachbuch zum Thema nachhaltige Mode in tollem, modernen Design mit vielen kreativen Tipps und wichtigen Informationen für Kinder ab 10 Jahren. Hier werden Themen wie Fast Fashion, bewusstes Einkaufsverhalten oder ein nachhaltiger Umgang mit Kleidung angesprochen. Mit vielen farbigen Illustrationen, kreativen DIY-Anleitungen und Interviews mit ExpertInnen – informativ, unterhaltsam und zeitgemäß. Der Mode-Leitfaden für Kinder der Fridays for Future-Generation.

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ReFashioned: Cutting-Edge Clothing from Upcycled Material

Lotte — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:33:37 +0000

Für die Mode werden Upcycling und Recyling zum Ausdruck der Slow-Fashion-Bewegung.
Bei ReFashioned arbeiten 46 internationale Designer mit recycelten Materialien und ausrangierten Kleidungsstücken, um ihnen ein neues Leben zu geben. Das Ergebnis sind wertige Kleidung und Accessoires, die auch in der Modewelt ein Statement zu den oft verschwenderischen und ausbeuterischen Praktiken abgeben.

Sass Brown is the Assistant Dean of the School of Art and Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, and the former Resident Director of its study abroad program in Florence, Italy. As a designer, researcher, writer, journalist and blogger, her area of expertise is eco fashion in all of its various expressions. She is the New York editor for Coco Eco Magazine and writes for a range of other magazines and websites. Her first book, Eco Fashion, was published by Laurence King in 2010.

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Mach neu aus alt – Kleidung und Accessoires

Lotte — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:26:34 +0000

Gähnende Langeweile im Kleiderschrank? Die Geschäfte haben schon zu und kein passendes Accessoire für die Party? Kein Problem für den, der dieses Buch zu Hause hat. Der neue Titel aus der Erfolgsserie Mach Neu aus Alt zeigt, wie man Dinge, die vielleicht schon auf dem Weg in den Mülleimer waren,in stylische Mode und originelle Accessoires verwandelt. So wird aus einem aussortierten Männerhemd mit nur wenigen Handgriffen ein Kleid, ein Rock oder gar ein Top und aus der alten Yogamatte ein Paar hippe Flip-Flops. Auch renommierte Modeschöpfer wie Christian Louboutin haben das Thema Recycle-Design für sich entdeckt.Ihre Kreationen werden zusammen mit tollen Do-it-yourself-Ideen vorgestellt.

Henrietta Thompson schreibt als Mode- und Designjournalistin für verschiedene renommierte Magazine. Mit dem hochgelobten ersten Band der Reihe Mach Neu aus Alt zeigte sie bereits, dass Design und Stil auch ohne verschwenderische Mittel möglich sind.

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Loved Clothes Last How the Joy of Rewearing and Repairing Your Clothes Can Be a Revolutionary Act

Lotte — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 20:42:10 +0000

Running out of space for the clothes you can’t stop buying? Curious about how you can make a difference to the environmental challenges our planet faces? Join Orsola’s care revolution and learn to make the clothes you love, last longer.

This book will equip you with a myriad of ways to mend, rewear and breathe new life into your wardrobe to achieve a more sustainable lifestyle. By teaching you to scrutinise your shopping habits and make sustainable purchases, she will inspire you to buy better, care more and reduce your carbon footprint by simply making your loved clothes last longer.

Following Orsola’s practical tips to lavish care and attention on the clothes you already own will not only have a positive environmental impact, but will be personally rewarding too: hand wash, steam and spot clean your clothes, air dry instead of tumble drying, or revive your clothes by sewing or crocheting.

Fast fashion leaves behind a trail of human and environmental exploitation. Our wardrobes don’t have to be the finish line; they can be a starting point. We can all care, repair and rewear. Do you accept the challenge?

Orsola de Castro is spearheading a global movement calling for change in the fashion industry. After founding Fashion Revolution in 2013, she pioneered a global campaign in response to the Rana Plaza factory collapse and became an internationally recognised opinion leader in sustainable fashion.

Orsola is an Associate Lecturer at UAL, Visiting Fellow at CSM and a keynote speaker, educator and mentor. She is a leading speaker on fashion and sustainability. She has partnered with individuals like Lily Cole, Stella McCartney, Lauren Laverne and Emma Watson at Fashion Revolution.

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‚It’s important that everyone with an interest in fashion reads this book so we can live on a healthier planet‘ Arizona Muse

‚The most timely book you’ll read this year‘ India Knight

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