Category: Social
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First (official-un-official) Repair Cafe
Clothing, Community, Darning, Learning, Repair, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, TextilesWhat a great repair session! Last Saturday’s theme was textiles and clothing with a particular focus on darning. The talented Tom of Holland came bearing darning mushrooms, wool and needles and showed us how to use visible mending to repair our holey (not holy) clothes. Socks were brought and… → read on
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Darn it!
Breaking news… This Saturday we will have Tom of Holland (one of our repair expert volunteers) joining us to share his knitwear darning expertise: If you have socks with holes in, jumpers with worn out elbows or clothes that moths have been munching bring them along and learn how to darn them better. We will have some needles, threads and… → read on
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Brighton Repair Cafe Launch Party
Well, what a night! We were fortunate to have Cat for Freegle, Mike form Build Brighton, Boo from Space Place and Zosia from Lonely Parts, Raquel Seri from Oliver Heath‘s Studio, plus a whole host of other people with repair skills to offer at Bom-Banes. → read on
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The 2013 Launch
Tonight we launch the Brighton Repair Cafe for 2013 with a party (and why not)! Watch this space to find out who came, what they did and how they are going to get involved in future Repair Cafes. → read on
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