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The term "Invisible Mending" dates back more than 200 years and describes the highly skilled and time-consuming method of repairing damage to cloth by taking individual threads from a hem, side seam or other concealed part of the garment of the same type and re weaving them over the damaged area to make as near perfect repairs as is humanly possible.
Below are some pictures of the sequences involved in effecting an invisible repair to the sleeve of a damaged jacket.
What is Invisible Mending
The damaged area is pressed flat.
The sleeve hem is carefully unpicked.
Threads are removed one at a time from a concealed area.
Sufficient threads of each colour are removed to weave the repair.
Threads are inserted by hand to exactly match the original weave.
First the warp and then the weft threads are carefully re woven.
The trailing ends of the threads are carefully removed.
Finally the invisible repair is pressed flat the last part of this intricate process.
The Results
