Save Your Favorite Shirt! Step-by-Step Guide to Mending Woven Fabric

Learn how to mend a hole in a woven shirt with this step-by-step tutorial! Whether you’re repairing a favorite garment or honing your visible mending skills, this video is packed with essential tips for fixing holes in woven fabrics like cotton, linen, or denim. I’ll show you how to repair a shirt hole in a way that blends seamlessly with the original weave, using techniques inspired by sustainable fashion and zero-waste living.
What You’ll Learn in This Video:
Choosing the right matching yarn to make your mend invisible (or as subtle as possible).
Understanding the difference between warp and weft threads in woven fabrics.
Using an embroidery hoop for fabric repairs and why it’s so helpful for maintaining tension.
Recreating the warp threads and understanding their role in the fabric structure.
Stitching the weft threads while paying attention to weave patterns like twill weave for a professional-looking result.
Key tools for mending, including needle, scissors, embroidery hoops.
Why Mending Matters:
Mending woven shirts and other clothing is not just practical-it’s also a great way to support slow fashion and reduce textile waste. Instead of throwing away damaged clothes, you can learn simple techniques to extend their life. This is perfect for enthusiasts of visible mending, DIY clothing repairs, and anyone who loves preserving their favorite pieces.
If you’re into sustainable fashion, visible mending, or DIY clothing repairs, don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more tutorials! Let me know in the comments if you have any mending questions or requests for future videos.
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[@luciavramos]

Very good

[@scrap_spun]

Thank you very much 🫶

[@dortefranck6091]

Wauv it looks good 😍 A realy good tutorial - thx 👌🧡💛🧡

[@scrap_spun]

Thank you so much! 🥹

[@lindafranck922]

I wanna try that 😮

[@scrap_spun]

You should! 😍 i actually get excited now, when my clothes tear, so I get a chance to make a new mend 😇

[@tw716]

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[@scrap_spun]

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