mending

Parker has been mending rifts professionally for 25 years, but she insists that her skill set shouldn’t be special.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

A pile of mending projects in my sewing room filled a shelf.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

"You don't get many people mending raw cashmere," said Wade, whose role is to meticulously inspect and darn any defects in the fabric by hand, before it is washed, cut and shipped around the world.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

But the Mandelson mess makes mending what's been done that much harder.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026

“I’m sorry that I didn’t realize how late it was. Aunt Rachel, this is Nathaniel Eaton, Captain Eaton’s son, from the Dolphin. He was mending Hannah’s roof, and I helped him.”

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

The seams were white, the edges curled, the buttonholes torn in spite of many mendings; the whole presenting to the most unobservant eyes the heart-breaking stigmas of honest penury.

From The Brotherhood of Consolation by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

They had worn through the various mendings the pocket had sustained and sought their liberty in the sands of Carolina.

From John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court by Edward Samuel Corwin

Fence and equipment mendings, cutting ice from ponds and rivers, chopping wood, and grubbing up trees all had a part in his busy life.

From Frying Pan Farm by Elizabeth Brown Pryor

The tire was already somewhat of a patched affair, bearing evidences of former punctures and mendings.

From The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill by Ruel Perley Smith

For what are coarse material mendings to the æsthetic soul yearning after the infinite, and worshipping at the feet of the prophet?

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun