Village Mending

There’s enough clothes on Earth to cover all of us many times over. Luckily I’m far from the only person fixing them! Here are some of the many wonderful makers and menders in our community.

Portland Oregon Make/Reuse Shops

Yarn Shops

• Disco Fibers – secondhand yarn
• Unwind Yarn Studio – Tigard
• For Yarn’s Sake – Beaverton
• Fiber Rhythm – SE
• Close Knit – east
• Green Tree Crochet – Hillsboro
• Hook and Needle – Vancouver
• Knotty Lamb – Forest Grove
• Northwest Wools – Multnomah Village
• Ritual Dyes – SE
• Starlight Knitting Society – SE
• Weird Sisters – NE (also a bookstore)

Embroidery Stores

• Northwest Needlepoint
• Acorn and Threads

Vintage

• Forager Vintage

Menders

Portland, Oregon

• Dutchess Clothier
• Vaneks Shoe Repair
• Helpful Mig (@ Forager Vintage)
• Neighborhood Alterations
• Indigo Proof – jeans
• Woobie the Fibrearian
• Wrenbird Arts – Sashiko

USA

• Old Flame Mending – Pitsburg
• Frayed Threads Mending – Seattle
• Mendarcata – California
• Barn Burner Mending – New England
• Wildwood Mending – Connecticut
• Tru – California

Elsewhere

• Reclaim Mending (Canada)
• Mending Mayhem (Norway)
• Worth Mending (Canada)
• Repair What You Wear (UK)
• Collingwood-Norris (UK)

Community Resources

• Repair PDX – find professional repairs and free repair events
• Mending Bloc – mutual aid mending