Guest contributor, textile mender
Ines Okafor
Ines repairs knitwear, linen and the shirts people refuse to give up, from a table in a shopfront that is open on Thursdays. She teaches visible mending in a village hall and keeps a drawer of other people's buttons.
Ines Okafor mends clothes for a living, which she describes as the least glamorous way to be useful. She keeps a Thursday shopfront in Northgate and a drawer of orphan buttons that she hopes, one day, to match to their shirts.
Essays by Ines Okafor
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Mending in Plain Sight
A guest essay from a textile mender on why visible repair is not a trend but a plain statement of fact, and how to darn a hole in a wool sock in four honest steps.
