Durrani, Through the Threaded Needle - A multi-sited ethnography on the sociomateriality of garment mending practices

Through the threaded needle presents an in-depth nuanced discussion on the practice of garment mending. Drawing on rich ethnographic data, mending is traced across four cities to explore what communal garment repair events can tell us about how menders perform, learn and sustain their practice. In bringing forth the complexities laden within the practices of menders, the notion of understanding through an examination of the interlaced and entangled relations between social and material forces...