The Importance of Mending with Old Flame Mending

Overproduction, overconsumption, and waste are a huge problem within the fashion industry, with consumers throwing away an average of 70 pounds (of clothing and shoes) annually. This problem can't be solved overnight, but we can all take part in reducing our impact; lengthening the lives of our clothing. 

Join us on August 22nd at 4:00 pm PST / 7:00 pm EST to learn The Importance of Mending with Rebecca Harrison, Founder & Lead Sewist at Old Flame Mending. Throughout the program, we will learn about Rebecca and why she founded Old Flame Mending, about the 10,000+ pieces she has saved, and what it is like to be a professional mender full-time. At the end of the call, we will also have a live mending session combined with a Q&A -- so bring your current projects or pieces you have questions about!

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Rebecca Harrison is the founder at Old Flame Mending, a Pittsburgh-based sewing service that helps people keep their clothing out of the landfill through repair, alterations, and custom work. She has worked with textiles and clothing professionally in multiple capacities, including farming, personal styling, tailoring, mending, entrepreneurship, and teaching. Since Old Flame Mending was founded in 2019, it has saved over 10,000 garments from the landfill, opened a brick and mortar shop, and taught hundreds of people how to mend through workshops. Old Flame Mending also has a mail-in program, taking orders from anywhere in the US.