Darning Stitch Embroidery

Make your favorite clothes even better with darning embroidery! Let’s use your creativity to make even holes and stains look cute again. Why don’t you start the fun of mending?

Small Darning Stitch – using embroidery thread and beads – Tomomi Mimura

The theme of the third installment in Mimura Tomomi’s darning embroidery series is “Small Darning”. By using embroidery thread and thin thread, you can also incorporate beads, allowing for colorful and more delicate expressions.

Embroidery Sewed with the Darning Stitch -Using extra-thick and average-thick yarn- Tomomi Mimura

The darning stitch is a technique in which threads are crossed vertically and horizontally to create a surface as if weaving a piece of cloth. This is originally a mending technique, but it can be combined to create cute designs.

Darning Brooch by Hikaru Noguchi – Made with mending techniques

The book introduces the art of making Darning Brooches to preserve your favorite clothes and fabrics, presented with photos by Hikaru Noguchi, a key figure in popularizing darning.

Darning with Botanical Embroidery – Enjoy hand repair with patterns and techniques

This book shows how to revive items that are worn out from stains, holes, or years of use but are too cherished to let go, using the power of embroidered plants in both flat and three-dimensional designs.

Small Mending of Clothes

This book introduces methods for “repairing” items to cherish and use them for a longer time. It revives spots that have mysteriously appeared, moth-eaten areas, or places accidentally torn, using techniques like darning, embroidery, and appliqué.

Hikaru Noguchi’s repair with Darning

Darning, which comes from the UK, a country where things are cherished and used for a long time, is a mending technique that revives cherished clothing, such as sweaters with holes, socks, and stained favorite shirts.