The Royal College of Art Summer Show has a whole section featuring textile artists. Celia Pym loves darning clothes; she has done it in Paris and the Orkney Islands and wants to mend her way around the UK. Now she is in London. She sees it as a way of reclaiming old clothes and recognising their intrinsic beauty. For one project she invited people to bring in clothing with holes. Responding to signs stuck on posts, they brought in things that they treasured which may not have been particularly elegant, but were special to them. Then she repaired t...
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