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Door to Door Darning: Michael Swaine
by Bonnie Alter, London on 10. 9.08
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Michael Swaine has been travelling through London knocking on doors and
offering to darn people's socks. He is asking them to fill out a "Door to Door
Darning Survey" and at the same time he is using it as an entré to try to talk
to them about clothes mending and if and how they do it. En route to The
Knitting and Stitching Show, he has stopped off at Origin: The London Craft
Fair and set up "shop". "Shop" is a small old suitcase that has shelves built
into it and rows of colourful threads, scissors and needles. And he is starting
gentle, quiet conversations with curious patrons about darning.
He calls it artistic mending, but says that mostly people are teaching him
about old mending techniques that they have learned from their mothers and
grandmothers. With an old wool sock in hand, a Finnish woman comes over to show
him a circular method of mending and another from Scandinavia has her own,
different way of doing it. Mainly he listens to people's stories about age and
old things and the memories that the simple act of mending evokes.
Swaine is a performance artist from San Francisco. He started the "Free Mending
Library" with a reconfigured old ice cream cart, complete with sewing machine
and umbrella, and a neon sign that flashes the word SEW. He used to wheel it
around to different neighbourhoods and fix clothes for people. He finally ended
up going to the Tenderloin, a tough area of San Francisco, every month for the
last six years. There he fixes clothes for his group of regulars and they stop
and talk and tell their stories. So it is not only about the clothes -- it is
about community, people, social interaction and our throw away society. ::
Origin: The London Craft Fair
More on Mending Old Clothes
:: Darning Clothes as an Art Form
:: New Clothes are so Old Hat
:: Love to Knit
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