A little workshop in Minokamo City, central Japan receives countless requests from across Japan to repair damaged clothes. Kaketsugi, or invisible mending, is a technique for repairing holes or ...

Spain’s Inditex, which operates the Zara clothing outlets, launched a mending service for its products in Britain in November 2022. Meanwhile, an outdoor brand whose products are usually used in ...

Goto has honed her “kaketsugi” clothes mending skills under her father, Tesshu Kataoka, 76, at Oriwa Giken, his small studio here, repairing moth holes, cigarette burns and rips on customers ...