Visible repairs on knitted jumper; Both elbows mended with woven darns both in mustard and grey yarn on cream donegal knit

Repairs for well-loved textiles

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Repairs for well-loved textiles 〰️

Overstory Mending is a UK - wide postal repair service based in Scotland.

Providing thoughtful and creative mends for your clothing, accessories, and homewares.

Restoring and renewing them with you, so they can continue being worn, used and loved.

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You can find all the mending service details here.

Look here to learn more about Em - the repairer behind the repairs.

Invisible repair, discreet darning on cream knitted jumper
Visible sashiko repair on cotton jumpsuit

Visible Mends

Discreet Mends

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