In-Store: Kate Sekules: Mend! w/ Rachel Ceruti & FABSCRAP

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FABSCRAP is excited to host a conversation with the wonderful Kate Sekules! As a fellow Brooklyn textile reuse champion, Kate offers incredible insights, histories, and practices that perfectly compliments FABSCRAP’s mission. To further drive locality and build community, we are aiming to host this conversation in Brooklyn, specifically, Books Are Magic to promote Kate’s book, “Mend!” to our eager audience.

A hands-on manual and a history and celebration of clothes tending--and its remarkable resurgence as art form, political statement, and path to healing the planet.

For thousands of years, mending was a deep craft that has for too long been a secret history. But now it's back, bigger and better than ever. In this book Kate Sekules introduces the art of visible mending as part of an important movement to give fashion back its soul. Part manifesto, part how-to, MEND! calls for bold new ways of keeping clothes and refreshing your style. Crammed with tips, fun facts, ravishing photography, and illustrated tutorials, MEND! tells you exactly how to rescue and renew your wardrobe with flair and aplomb--and save money along the way.

Whether you've never owned a needle or are an aspiring professional, MEND! gives you clear instruction and witty advice, with over thirty techniques, from classic darning and patching to cheeky new methods invented by Sekules, to help you turn every garment into a unique fashion statement. Including interviews with menders, shameful fashion industry facts, a ten-step closet mend, cheat sheets, stitch guides, moth elimination, museum conservator and vintage dealer tricks, and more, this is a book to inspire, delight, and galvanize. Sharp, funny, and incredibly timely, MEND! leads the slow fashion revolution into its next phase, where getting dressed is a joyful, creative experience for all.

FABSCRAP is a 501(c)3 nonprofit working to end commercial textile "waste." Your donations and purchases support our work and allow us to continue offering accessible programming to grow our community. To maximize the value of unused fabric, FABSCRAP is a convenient and transparent Service, an affordable and accessible materials Resource, and is educating and empowering a Community of changemakers.

Kate Sekules is a mending and fashion historian, professor, and practitioner. She lectures widely, runs frequent events and repair clinics, including the monthly Darn It! club at Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, and hosts #MendMarch on Instagram. She has published and presented academic research at over two dozen symposia internationally, is completing her doctoral dissertation, A History and Theory of Mending at Bard Graduate Center, NYC, and teaches fashion history—and mending—at Pratt Institute, Parsons and BGC. She is author of MEND! A Refashioning Manual and Manifesto (Penguin, 2020).

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