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by Tessa Stetter Watanabe’s studio, Tokushima, Japan, photo by Tessa Stetter Indigo Dye Workshop at Watanabe’s Indigo Farm and Studio From Kyoto to Watanabe’s Indigo farm and studio in Tokushima prefecture, it takes about 3 hours. After a bus ride and a train ride you will arrive at Ishii Station. The region of Tokushima has a rich and long history of Indigo, it used to be the largest producer of Indigo Pigment in Japan. With the invention of synthetic indigo dye in 1883 and

by Brigid Trott Image by Emilie Thomsen Why Mend? In order to make sense of current mending practices we must first look at why mending was practiced in the past. Reasons to mend clothing—to devote time, resources and skill to darning and stitching—vary. However, largely people mend quite simply because they need to make clothing last longer. Mending has a historic association with times of austerity , as well as with lower classes who cannot frequently buy new clothes (Bide,

by Jess Montgomery Photo by K. Sark There is a line in Bruno Latour’s book Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (2018), that summarizes the great responsibility the global apparel industry holds in leading the way towards a model of sustainable production and consumption. Down to Earth is a short book that, like much of Latour’s work, is simple in concept and complex in approach. In it, the French philosopher grapples with what he sees as the connecting force