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Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts
Nina Montenegro, Sonya Montenegro
4.56 AVERAGE
120 reviews for:
Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts
Nina Montenegro, Sonya Montenegro
4.56 AVERAGE
Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.
Mending Life is a gently illustrated tutorial guide to repairing and repurposing textiles (especially clothing) for the modern person, along with a dose of philosophy and musings on meaning. Due out 10th March 2020 from Sasquatch Books, it's 224 pages and will be available in hardcover format.
This is an accessible and well written guide to basic mending techniques but it's also a wonderfully illustrated and gently philosophical treatise on the malaise of a consumer driven lifestyle and disposable culture. The introduction and background lead into chapters on darning, patching, other repair techniques, and alterations for clothing. Throughout the book, the artist-authors have used their artwork to illustrate and illuminate. The style is naive and whimsical, gentle and with a soothing palette.
The book includes a short index and a comprehensive and eclectic bibliography and resource links list for further reading.
Five stars. I really enjoyed this one and recommend it highly for all age groups and abilities. Anyone could use this book as a starting point to acquire some valuable life skills.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
Mending Life is a gently illustrated tutorial guide to repairing and repurposing textiles (especially clothing) for the modern person, along with a dose of philosophy and musings on meaning. Due out 10th March 2020 from Sasquatch Books, it's 224 pages and will be available in hardcover format.
This is an accessible and well written guide to basic mending techniques but it's also a wonderfully illustrated and gently philosophical treatise on the malaise of a consumer driven lifestyle and disposable culture. The introduction and background lead into chapters on darning, patching, other repair techniques, and alterations for clothing. Throughout the book, the artist-authors have used their artwork to illustrate and illuminate. The style is naive and whimsical, gentle and with a soothing palette.
The book includes a short index and a comprehensive and eclectic bibliography and resource links list for further reading.
Five stars. I really enjoyed this one and recommend it highly for all age groups and abilities. Anyone could use this book as a starting point to acquire some valuable life skills.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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Super useful overall handbook for repairs, mixed in with inspiring anecdote to remind us why we repair. Clearly a work made with a lot of love and respect to the practice of mending and to the objects we use and own.
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Not just a mending book, but a delight in illustration as well. Unlike other books, all of the images are hand drawn. Add this to the delightful stories and reflections on life and mending, and you have a sewing book of a completely different order. I borrowed this copy from my library, but I think this is one that I need to have on my shelf!
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
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