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RE: Giving Clothes a New Lease of Life. Altering and Repairing Practice.
I'm looking forward to doing the jeans. I recently came across sashiko for visible repairs. I'll probably start with something simple and work from there. Have you tried that yet?
I haven't tried it myself but we had a speaker at my monthly sewing club who collected traditional garmnts from China and Japan and had a beautiful collection of repaired garments using sashiko and other techniques - many of them were very old and had been repaired many times (including the repairs)! The process for making them in the first place (they were mainly made from hemp, by hand) was so arduous and time-consuming that there was great value in maintaining them as long as possible. Environmentally, the same is true for us today.
I'd have loved to see them. Repairs of repairs! I wouldn't have thought of that. My mindset has already changed and I'm pulling out old jeans I'd earmarked for scraps and planning repairs, but I would probably still have thought repairs needing repair to be the end. Now I know better.