While small clothing tears can be mended with a simple stitch (easy enough even if it’s been decades since your last home ec class), it’s not always the smooth sailing for other things like shoes and ...

Young people just don’t know how to sew anymore. One day you might just point a device at a torn dress, and it’ll print a matching patch just like that. Every year, the average American throws out ...

Mya Castillo-Marte at work. Photo by Brett Villena. The clues are everywhere. There’s a wicker basket full of cloth; books about leather and fabric stacked and bound with a dark green belt; and a ...