/r/Visiblemending

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A home for those who add artistic flair to repair work.

A lot of time, care, and resources go into the creation of everyday items, especially the clothes we wear. Mending honors and celebrates all of that by extending the usable life of items, rather than just throwing them away and replacing them. Visible mending combines the repair process with creative expression. This is a place to share your visible mending projects, or learn and gather ideas for visible mending.

Upcycling, zero waste fashion, secondhand projects, etc., do not automatically belong here, they must prominently feature visible mending.

Mends do not need to be expressly "Visible", but consider if it would be more appropriate in the dedicated subreddit for r/InvisibleMending.

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/r/Visiblemending

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Is this tear mendable?

Is this tear mendable to make the tear not visible? I am willing to take it to a professional if they are able to restore it to make it not noticeable. I’m not particularly skilled at sewing and don’t have a machine.

0 Comments
2025/01/31
22:58 UTC

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3 mends completed on my flea market flannel!

3 Comments
2025/01/31
20:24 UTC

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Had big dreams of at least a decent satin stitch-but at least the hole is gone

Got to work and realized I had worn out the inner thigh on my jeans. Happened to have a few minutes before I started and my needlepoint in my purse so stole some embroidery floss and hoped for the best. Not great but not bad for 5 minutes and doing it with my pants on.

5 Comments
2025/01/31
20:13 UTC

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Fixed a hole in my boyfriend’s shirt with a wiener on roller skates

8 Comments
2025/01/31
19:51 UTC

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How to fix a broken zipper pull tab

Hey! I mostly grew up in a 'replace broken things' rather than 'fix it' family so it's a new skill for me. A bag I really like had the pull tab come off. What are y'alls recommendations for fixing it? Especially if I can avoid like buying a box off new tabs from Amazon or something

4 Comments
2025/01/31
18:57 UTC

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Advice for how to make this better looking

Hello! I recently patched my favorite jeans after the oh so typical tearing at the thighs. But it's a bit more visible in the back then I'd like. I've already done some repair work on the front and have embroidered some little stars around and on some rips around the knees. These jeans are sort of a compilation of little details and aesthetics I like and I was hoping to get some advice on how best to blend in this mend and make it look good while still being visible. Some of the aesthetics I like are things like cottage core, celestial, witchy, Gothic, woodsy, fair core, mushrooms, etc. I'm open to any suggestions regardless of method!

4 Comments
2025/01/31
16:48 UTC

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First try at scotch darning

Very cool texture, kind of reminds me of scales

8 Comments
2025/01/31
13:57 UTC

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Somebody told me to post this here because you guys might love it haha!

8 Comments
2025/01/31
05:37 UTC

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Is there any way to mend this?

I’ve had this hoodie for about 7 years now, it is such a comfort piece for me.

However in its first years I was young and would chew parts of it out of stress (the hoodie strings are gone and completely chewed thru one of then so much that it is unraveling the individual threads lol) the pictured parts being one them.

It’s recently started to fully unravel and I was wondering if there’s any way to mend it. I really wanna get as much life out of this hoodie as I can.

Sorry if the flair is wrong, I’ve never posted here before :d

12 Comments
2025/01/30
16:05 UTC

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