Description

This is a recording of a live online event held on Wednesday 28 January 2026.

With Cultural and Dress Historian, Kate Sekules. 

One of the most creative embroidery formats is the practical kind that also preserves valuable or sentimental cloth. Visible mending is a modern trend but has a hidden history as long as that of textile itself.

Mending scholar, author, and teacher Kate Sekules explores forgotten pathways of repair from the neolithic to the Iron Age and into the future. Meet Kate to find out more about this timeless and fascinating subject.

Kate researches and teaches mending as an academic and practical discipline. She is completing her doctoral dissertation, A History and Theory of Mending at Bard Graduate Center, NYC. She is assistant professor of fashion history at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, and of “Mending Fashion” at Parsons School of Design (BA) and BGC (MA).

Kate has presented research at over two dozen symposia internationally, lectures widely and runs frequent events and repair clinics. She is author of MEND! A Refashioning Manual and Manifesto (Penguin, 2020).

Image credit: Sara Kerens

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