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Megan Sweeney tells an intimate story about family, selfhood, and love and loss, showing how her lifetime practice of sewing and mending clothes becomes a way of living.

Table of Contents
A Note on Ornaments ix
Piecing. A Prologue 1
1. Selvedge 10
2. Salvage 75
3. Redress 113
4. Threads 137
5. Mending 177
Hem. Acknowledgments 209
Notes 213
Bibliography 223
Index 231

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      Publisher Duke University Press
      Published 4 April 2023
      ISBN-13 9781478019107
      978-1478019107
      ISBN-10 1478019107
      Also in:
      Biography: general Cultural studies: dress and society

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Megan Sweeney tells an intimate story about family, selfhood, and love and loss, showing how her lifetime practice of sewing and mending clothes becomes a way of living.

      Table of Contents
      A Note on Ornaments ix
      Piecing. A Prologue 1
      1. Selvedge 10
      2. Salvage 75
      3. Redress 113
      4. Threads 137
      5. Mending 177
      Hem. Acknowledgments 209
      Notes 213
      Bibliography 223
      Index 231

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