One dusty family photo album in my attic holds black-and-white snapshots of my mother and grandmother darning their socks in the early 1950s. “We used burnt-out light bulbs to hold them while we ...

Amanda Lee McCarty, sustainability consultant and host of the Clotheshorse podcast, remembers fixing a tear on her Forever 21 shirt with a stapler—just long enough to get through the workday before ...

Beginner Natasha Dominguez uses a pattern template to learn new stitches during the Radical Sewing Club in Huntington Park. On a balmy summer evening, Sary Gil of Norwalk tediously repairs one of his ...

Instructional materials from Cathy Karp's visible mending class. Students used colorful thread and referred to mending books for inspiration. This is a web edition of GBH Daily, a weekday newsletter ...

Spaces to remake and mend clothes would bring much-needed life back into shopping centres and high streets, a new study says. Efforts to wean people away from fast fashion should go beyond sewing ...

Liz Truong approaches mending with a fearless attitude. “I tell my students, ‘Don’t be afraid of doing anything,’ ” she says, “ ‘Just get in there and do it.’ ” As with anything, you have to start ...