fix what you have

keep wearing your favourite clothes & reduce textile waste

step out of the fast fashion cycle by investing in the clothing you already own

offering diverse mending services: repairing knits and woven fabrics, elbow patches, logo coverup, and more

mending things in Vancouver and across Canada

A person with chin-length dark hair is wearing a cardigan. The cardigan is brightly coloured and has multiple visible mends on the front and arms.
Close up on a black sweater with some blue and green darned patches across the chest. The person wearing the sweater has long hair and a beard.
a plaid scarf mended with woven darn patches in complementary colours
Someone with fair skin is wearing an orange fingerless glove. There is a blue and green mend on the palm of the glove.
A black cardigan is laid out on a mossy rock. The cardigan has pink and green floral embroidery on the chest and pink and green darned elbows.
A person wears a cowichan sweater while standing in the forest. The cowichan has a visible mend on the right chest.

why visible mending?

  • Canadians send about 500 million kilograms of fabric to the landfill every year - mending helps to reduce that amount!

  • By repairing clothing, there’s less need to purchase new. Reducing purchases helps to step away from the fast fashion cycle with its enormous environmental and human rights impacts.

  • Like the Japanese art of kintsugi, visible mending returns an item’s functionality while highlighting its personality. Visible mending adds charm to clothing.

  • Repairing clothing keeps your favourite items wearable for longer

mending services
A mustard yellow linen shirt that has a green scale-shaped sashiko mend under the arm.
Close up on a colourful patterend sweater which has darns across the chest. The darns are in the same pattern as the knit, but in complementary colours.