Patching a rip in the knee of pants.

rip

Still working on getting the end result square and with straight edges, but I like it.

finished

  • pageflight@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I got mine from Alexonver.

    I haven’t found a really authoritative history, but this site among others recounts:

    Back in the 1940s during WWII, cloth was rationed as everything was needed for the war effort. People became very adept and inventive at ‘making do and mending’.

    A Lancashire company – E&A Chesstok – produced a whole load of tiny looms called “SpeedWeve”. They were even known as “Lancashire’s Smallest Loom” or the “Lancashire Speedweve”, and came with a little set of darning loom instructions.