From colourful stitches to fabric mixing, visible mending can breathe new life into garments with stains or holes Ask a visible mender to explain why they love to repair clothes using patches or ...

Eighty-five-year-old Nooruddin peers carefully at the tear in the trousers, flips it out and proclaims: “ Theek hai. Ho jayega [Okay. It can be repaired].” He proceeds to ask for Rs.100 for the job.

Computerised sewing machines are an innovative take on electrical sewing machines that allow extremely precise stitches and enable you to create elaborate and detailed stitching designs. Such sewing ...

Step 6. Continue making stitches on each side of the first one, keeping them parallel and spacing them about 1/8” apart. The ends of these stitches should follow the outline of the shape that you ...

K T Jeyaprakash is busy putting a stitch on a sari in his hand. His 5 feet x 2 feet shop is just big enough to accommodate him, while a row of customers sit on a wooden plank at the entrance giving ...