With Eric Clausen of Drawing America By Bike – NURTUREart, May 5, 2012
How to change a tire with a fork!
Workshop lead by Sewing Rebellion NYC at NURTUREart, May 27, 2012
Photos by Tsubasa Berg
Fixers Collective – NURTUREart, May 19, 2012
This vacuum and my blender couldn’t be opened, because they were designed with specialty screws, requiring specialty screwdrivers to open. But the Fixers have rigged one, which they have at their usual space at Proteus Gowanus. I’ll have to take my blender there next time!
This sewing machine was missing a small but important piece. Victor had a spare piece of plastic and it did the job.
This lamp took center stage at the workshop.
Filed under: fabric, leather, rubber | Tags: broken, cut, mended, sewn, stitched, torn
I wore this pair of sandals the whole 7 months I was in India. Pretty soon, the soles started wearing thin. I could feel pebbles through the soles. So, when these kids approached me at a train station and offered to repair them for me, I asked them to make an insert.
The insert fell out pretty quickly since it wasn’t sewn in properly, so in Vrindavan, I had this cobbler sew in a proper insert for the heel. Perfecto.
Eventually, that wore down too, and a cobbler in Bangalore sewed an entire new sole to the bottoms of the existing ones. New treads!
No photo of the last repair, but I had another Bangalorean cobbler tighten the strap that goes between your toes. 3 years later and they’re still a major component of my summer gear!
A friend said they are probably one of the only pairs of cobbled Airwalks in the world.
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I’m organizing a series of repair workshops at NURTUREart in May, in conjunction with my show there. So excited for these! Here’s the flier. Click the image to download as PDF.
Langmusi China, 2006. One handle had pulled off my tote bag, and this guy stitched it back on and reinforced the other one.
Very cool sewing machine! Looks like he’s mainly a cobbler.
