Category: Furniture
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Our Mendathon at the Brighton Mini Maker Faire
Clothing, Darning, electrical, festival, Furniture, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, repair event, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles, ThingsWe were really chuffed to have Dave and Faraz from the Restart Project join us for the mendathon to help with electronic repairs – but they soon turned their hands to help with a range of other repairs too. Dave got started by fixing a hedge trimmer. The head of one of the screws was stripped so it… → read on
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Next Saturday 11th October
Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Furniture, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, repair event, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles, ThingsWe will be back at St George’s Church in Kemp Town for a repair café at our usual time of 11am-2pm. Bring along your broken electrical goods, jewellery and bric-a-brac as well as any clothing or textiles that need mending. We will also have Tom our expert darner on hand to show you how to… → read on
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New volunteers join us at the June Repair Café…
Clothing, Darning, electrical, Furniture, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, repair event, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, TextilesAli A.K.A ‘The Chair Doctor’ went to work on two loved but rickety old chairs. He secured the top rail of a chair by reinforcing the outside spindles, gluing and pining it back in to place.Another chair which had somehow had its arm wrenched off, needed the gnarly pins and screws embedded in the wood… → read on
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Brighton Repair Café 