Mending across the Globe: Boro, Swiss, and Scotch Darning
Mending across the Globe: Boro, Swiss, and Scotch Darning with Riley Kleve
Get clothes out of your mending pile and back into rotation with this new class! Dive into three techniques from around the world week-by-week, with expert help from instructor and fierce mending advocate Riley Kleve.
Starting with Japanese Boro, you’ll learn how to patch holes large and small in woven fabric without creating puckers or distortions in your garment. Switching gears, we’ll move on to Swiss Darning, a technique for reinforcing and repairing knit garments with just a needle and thread. Hopping over to Scotland, learn Scotch darning to repair holes in tricky-to-mend items like the worn-out soles of socks and small holes in your favorite t-shirts. Work on mending samples to practice each new technique or dive right in by mending worn-out items you bring from home. Whether this is your first mending class or you’re a mending pro looking to add new techniques to your repertoire, this class is for you!
This small group class is presented in collaboration with John C. Campbell Folk School and Lessonface. Participants should enroll at least two weeks before start to ensure materials kits arrive in time. If registering after this point, your kit may arrive after the first session. Students are invited to attend an optional Orientation and Closing Ceremony to connect with various online Folk School classes.
Class Materials
Your class registration fee includes a materials kit with a value of $45 shipped to your door. Residents outside the USA will pay the difference in shipping.
The kit includes:
Needles, pins, threads, yarn, darning disc, embroidery hoop, fabric for mending samples and patching are all included.
Students will also want to provide:
Bring textile items of all sorts in need of mending!
You need a pair of scissors or thread snips. All needles, threads, and necessary notions will be included in the supplies kit.
Optional: you might find it helpful to have good task lighting and magnification available to better see your own project.
Age Range
14-adult
Skill Level
All levels
Contact the Teacher
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About the John C. Campbell Folk School & Lessonface
Since 1925, the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina has transformed lives, and brought people together in a nurturing environment for experiences in learning and community life that spark self-discovery. Since 2012, Lessonface has connected more than 30,000 students with over 2,500 great teachers for live music, language, and arts lessons online, delivering on our mission to help students achieve their goals while treating teachers equitably.
When
The class will meet for three weekly 2-hour live online sessions.
Enrolled students receive 60-day access to the video recordings of the classes.
How It Works
Enroll above to save your spot in the class. Lessonface will send you a confirmation right away, and a Zoom link 24 hours before the class start time. You can log into your Lessonface dashboard to access class materials, communicate with your instructor, join the live Zoom session, and access the class recordings and chat transcript afterward.
Refund Policy: To cancel an enrollment or request a refund, contact [email protected]. For 30+ days before, we refund 95%. Between 30 and 5 days, receive a 75% refund. No refunds within 5 days of class start date. Materials kit fees are non-refundable.
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Riley Kleve
Riley Kleve is a textile artist and educator creating interactive and collaborative work in community-led settings. Their work in weaving, handspinning, and embroidery draws from history to create a queerer vision for the future of textiles.
About Lessonface, PBC
Lessonface's mission is to help students achieve their goals while treating teachers equitably. Since 2012, we've hosted more than 30,000 students and 2,000 teachers for over 500,000 music, language, and arts lessons and classes online.