Mend Assembly’s online offer is a global directory of spaces and initiatives related to ours around the world.
This forum has been created to support access to local practice. We are developing an exchange forum for resources, methods, patterns and know how from our listees and wider community.
Chorlton, UK
A space for crafters, makers and tinkerers, providing an alternative to the chain stores and empty shops of your average British high street. We offer sewing and upcycling workshops, clothes swaps and sustainable fabric sales, as well as running educational events like talks and film screenings.
London, UK
Established in June 2000. Fabrications is a buzzing hub of creativity with strong ethical standards in all that we do - shop, studio and workshops. Our focus is textiles, design, upcycling and community.
London, UK
Make Town is a creative Makerspace in Hackney. A purpose built studio bringing the community together through making and sharing.
Bristol, UK
Launched in January 2015, the BTQ Studio offers textile students, graduates, designer-makers, start-ups and dabblers alike access to affordable co-workspace and equipment.
London, UK
A Fashion & Textiles workspace set up by Assemble in partnership with 3Space and Lambeth Council. The space consists of private studios, desks, a free classroom for members and a workshop featuring industry standard machines. The community of tenants consists of practitioners from various fashion and textiles backgrounds. It is based on the 8th floor of International House in Brixton, London.
Paisley, Scotland
At ReMode we aim to raise awareness of the environmental impacts of the fashion and textiles industry. We want to inspire our communities to take positive practical steps to reduce these impacts by sharing creative and accessible solutions.
Frome, UK
Slow stitch club is all about learning new skills to mend the clothes you love. Using traditional techniques such as darning and Sashiko, slow stitch club offers accessible workshops, guides and products to help you get started with visible mending and extend the lives of your clothes to keep them out of landfill.
Aberdeen, Scotland
Free clothes mending tutorials for all, right and left-handed, beginners and refreshers. A resource for use by individuals, education and communities.
London, UK
An award winning, digital marketplace, The Seam empowers people to reduce their impact on the planet by adopting a circular approach to fashion: repair, reuse, recreate.
London, UK
London based mending workshops that aim to encourage change within our habits and mindset to clothing and fashion.
Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria's sewing haven since 2012! The Makehouse brings folks of all ages together to learn the art of stitching, making and mending. The store is choc-a-bloc with patterns, and sustainable fabrics including Tencel, organic cotton, Eco-Nyl, merino wool, linen and hemp. Our workshops cover beginner sewing through to advanced projects like swimsuits and bras!
Bristol, UK
nola, USA
We can no longer afford to throw clothing and other fabrics into the landfill.
By doubling the life of clothing from one to two years, we can help reduce emissions from
clothing production and disposal by as much as 24%.
Clothing has to be repaired, fabrics have to be re-used.
Now you know, why ricRACK is necessary.
ricRACK educates, raises awareness, shares skills, and recycles unwanted textiles.
A community center and circularity lab located in the heart of Accra, adjacent to Kantamanto Market, the No More Fast Fashion Lab for Community Design operates on cycles where we choose one material/garment type leaving Kantamanto as waste to investigate. With a team of designers and fabricators from within the Kantamanto Ecosystem along with artists-in-residence and apprentices from our Kayayei programming, we work to catapult innovations around circular product design, waste management solutions and skills training.
USA
R2R is taking our vision on the road. This van will be transformed into a closed-loop model for our first community. We also want to build a virtual reality experience of the first R2R Closed-Loop Community. We want to travel around America to promote our mission to change the culture of consumption and bring biodiversity back to the earth.
Bristol, UK
Botanical Inks is a natural dye studio based in Bristol, offering no-toxic natural dye services for small brands and designers, private commissions for special projects, professional training and tuition for groups and private classes. Babs Behan is the founder and author of "Botanical Inks, Plant-To-Print Dyes, Techniques and Projects" (Quadrille Books, 2018). Books, organic natural dyes, fabrics, dye kits, online dye workshops and dyed products are available from the online shop
Lisbon, Portugal
The LOFT Atelier in Lisbon is the first co-sewing space in Portugal and united already creative people from over 45 places worldwide.
