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proof that broken things get a second act, not a funeral
means The act of repairing something torn, broken, or worn — clothes, fences, bones, or feelings — to make it whole and usable again.
from From Middle English 'menden,' a shortened form of 'amenden' — the same root that gives us 'amend' — which came through Old French 'amender' from Latin 'emendare,' 'to free from fault' (from 'e-,' out, plus 'menda,' a flaw or blemish). So 'mending' and 'amending' are siblings: one stitches a sock, the other corrects a constitution, but both trace back to the Latin idea of taking the fault out of a thing.
- japanese art
- kintsugi repairs pottery with gold, flaunting the cracks
- oldest tool
- bone needles stitched hides over 60,000 years ago
- sailors knew
- the sail repair shaped early surgical stitching techniques
- bones too
- fractures heal stronger at the break site
- visible mending
- a movement turning patches into deliberate decoration
visible mending movement — japanese sashiko and korean pojagi techniques revived as intentional textile art since 2010s
patagonia worn wear — patagonia's repair program that fixes and resells damaged gear to extend product life
the repair cafe — community workshops started in amsterdam 2009 where volunteers teach people to fix broken items