DARNED! Darning Samplers a Hidden History
A few years ago, it was simple: if you had a hole in your t-shirt, jeans or socks, you simply threw them away! Or at least, many did. But there was, and is still, a movement to artistically mend or repair them–to make a feature and statement about a darned, patched or laced tear or hole. What would people have thought about creative or visible mending, two hundred years ago?
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