The Visible Mending Workshop with Stitch School

Maximum Class Size: 8

Open to all levels

Join Melanie for a practical and creative approach to hand mending garments and home textiles. Referencing ancient and traditional methods passed down through different cultures and generations, you'll rediscover forgotten techniques and develop a creative approach to repair, playing with fabric, colour, and stitch.

This session explores how repair can add emotional value to garments and contribute to their continuing narrative through fabric and stitch. Celebrate the benefits of mending and slow stitching as a form of mindfulness and wellbeing.

Using Ray Stitch fabric scraps, you'll patch, darn, and stitch to create a sampler for future reference. By the end of the session, you'll have the confidence, knowledge, and ideas to apply mending techniques to your own garments for years to come.

Tutor Melanie Bowles is the founder of Stitch-School and a mending artist who extends the life of treasured garments through hand stitching, reflecting, extending, and building new narratives with cloth.

Techniques covered:

• Plain patching - Basic patch
• Visible patching - Sashiko and Boro work
• Mending stitches - Blanket stitch, Honeycomb stitch, Parachute stitch
• Visible mending - Darning techniques

Materials: All materials provided.

Ray Stitch Student Discount: Booking a class entitles you to 10% off all full price products in the shop (excluding books) from one week before your class starts through to the end of your course.