As someone who makes their own clothes, it definitely did not surprise anyone who knows me that I picked “Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts” to review. After spending hours ...

One dusty family photo album in my attic holds black-and-white snapshots of my mother and grandmother darning their socks in the early 1950s. “We used burnt-out light bulbs to hold them while we ...

Lauren Callis Erickson spent hours mending her beat-up jeans jacket, making tiny rows of white and pink stitches that stand out against the denim. And that’s the point. Her handiwork is an example of ...