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Bring your clothes, bring your repairs and join Fremantle for the Great Global Mend - a global community event celebrating the simple but powerful act of keeping our clothes in use for longer.The City of Fremantle is bringing the Great Global Mend to Fremantle, with the Slow Fashion Hub hosting the event at FOMO. Together, we're inviting the community to build repair skills, keep clothing in use and take part in one shared hour of mending.
Free to participate | Registration essential | Latest arrival 10:30am
Register here: https://slowfashionhub.com.au/workshops/great-global-mend
At 11am sharp, we'll join menders elsewhere in Western Australia and around the world and get repairing.
Need some help? Come early.
Not sure what to do with that hole, tear or damaged area? That's exactly why we're opening our Repair Bar from 9:30am.
Anastasia and Chloe from the Slow Fashion Hub will be on hand to offer free advice and demonstrate some simple repair approaches. We'll help you think creatively about your garment and work out how you might tackle your repair.
You can explore approaches such as simple hand mending, patching, applique, visible mending and decorative repair.
This is preparation time - a chance to work out your repair, gather what you need and be completely ready when the official mend begins at 11am.
What should I bring?
Bring a few garments that need some love and repair if you can - perhaps a hole, tear, missing button, damaged hem or something that's simply been sitting in your mending pile for far too long.
If you have your own basic mending kit, please bring it along. Basic needles and thread will also be available at the Slow Fashion Hub.
Visit the Repair Bar
Participation in the Great Global Mend, along with repair advice and demonstrations, is free.
If you'd like access to the Slow Fashion Hub's Repair Bar, an optional $5 materials contribution is payable on the day.
You'll be able to explore a selection of surplus fabrics, prepared textile patches, lace, trims and other creative repair materials, including materials for creating your own iron-on textile patches.
You are equally welcome to bring your own repair materials and participate completely free of charge.
At 11am, we mend!
Once everyone is checked in, garments are weighed and preparations are complete, we'll be ready.
At 11am sharp, the Great Global Mend begins. We'll have one collective hour to get repairing, finishing at 12 noon.
Whether you're an experienced mender or have a garment you haven't the faintest idea how to fix, bring it along and be part of it.
Free to participate | Registration essential | Latest arrival 10:30am
Register here: https://slowfashionhub.com.au/workshops/great-global-mend
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Event venue
Slow Fashion Hub, To The Power Of You, G17 Tidal Lane,Fremantle,WA,Australia
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