Books

*Practical Home Mending Made Easy, Mary Brooks Picken, 2000.(Instructional) https://amzn.to/36XrE7g

*Make Do and Mend, 2014 reprint from pamphlet 1943, Imperial War Musuems.(Instructional) https://amzn.to/2uWnyz9

Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts, Nina and Sonya Montenegro, 2020. (Instructional & Inspirational) https://amzn.to/2Qy5h2K

Mend It! A Complete Guide to Clothes Repair, Maureen Goldsworthy, 1979. (Instructional)

 Mend It Better: Creative Patching, Darning, and Stitching, Author: Kristin Roach. 2012. (Instruction & Project Ideas) https://amzn.to/36Pcpxa

 Mend and Patch: A Handbook to Repairing Clothes and Textiles, by Kerstin Neumüller (London: Pavilion) 2018. https://amzn.to/2On5e9d

Slow Stitch: Mindful and contemplative textile art, Claire Wellesley-Smith, Batsford Books, 2015. https://amzn.to/36Uw4fl (Instruction, Theory & Artists)

 Unconventional & Unexpected: American Quilts Below the Radar, Roderick- Kiracofe, 2014. (Visual Inspiration) https://amzn.to/36T27fq

Carrie Hall Blocks: 800 Historical Patterns from the College of the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas , Bettina Havig, 1999. (Visual Inspiration)

 The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine, Rozsika Parker, 1984.https://amzn.to/36SL5hx (Theory & History)

Craftfulness: Mend Yourself by Making Things, Rosemary Davidson & Arzu Tahsin, 2018. https://amzn.to/2uW0GzD

 Textiles The Whole Story: uses, meanings, significance, Beverly Gordon, 2014.

Mending Matters: Stitch, Patch, & Repair your Favorite Denim and more, Katrina Rodabaugh, 2018. https://amzn.to/37WF8kZ

 Darning, Repair, Make, Hikaru Noguchi and Wakana Baba, 2020. https://amzn.to/36XbomG

 The Boro Aesthetic, Jody Alexander, 2017. https://amzn.to/2GSusIa

 The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook, Susan Briscoe, 2005. https://amzn.to/31n0K7z

 How to be a Craftivist: The art of gentle protest, Sarah Corbett. https://amzn.to/2SdrQtQ

The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present, Byung-Chul Han, Translated by Daniel Steuer, 2020. https://amzn.to/3KpWxsn

The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering, Byung-Chul Han, Translated by Daniel Steuer, 2020. https://amzn.to/3IgMK58

Through the Threaded Needle: A multi-sited ethnography on the sociomateriality of garment mending practices, Marium Durrani, 2019. Doctoral Dissertation. Downloadable PDF. Hardcopy available for Purchase.

America’s Glorious Quilts, Dennis Duke, 1989. https://amzn.to/3kjp4oN

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver, Mary Oliver, 2020. https://amzn.to/3ElukPN

On Mending: Stories of damage and repair, Celia Pym, 2023. https://amzn.to/3XFAbpH