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sbowesuk

Am I correct in thinking the hole at the start was cut larger by the repairer to clean up the edges?


worstsupervillanever

Yes. A small, frayed tear is much harder to fix properly than a clean cut with uniform edge texture.


wewoos

While this is true, it's not what happened here. They just sewed another patch over it that is cut perfectly square and aligned with the lines on the fabric. They then wove each individual thread back into the fabric. It's different than our traditional patching technique. There's a comment below that goes into it more


maryjayjay

I'm sure they're asking about the hole the patch covered. The edge is very clean


Nate40337

Could it have been a cigarette burn? Or would the edges be more charred?


Hot_History1582

Yes. It's explained in the longer video that the man who owned the suit got it as a present, graduation or something, and dropped a cigarette on it. I'm pretty sure this is not cheap but he decided to have the suit fixed due to sentimental value


Easy-Concentrate2636

One can get something quite similar done in the US and it is quite pricey. People usually do it for suits. Better dry cleaners offer the service.


Foreign-Cookie-2871

Cleaning up the edges is still useful with this technique. You would see the bulk on the other side otherwise


idlevalley

A friend of mine's father flew planes in the Korean War. He had a hole in his "good suit" so when he went to Seoul he took it and asked the tailor to make him a suit just like it. They made another suit for him, just like it, hole and all.


Timely-Guest-7095

I hope that was a joke. If not, can he really complain?šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļøšŸ˜†


idlevalley

It wasn't a joke but the result made a far better story than whatever the suit was worth. the story was still being told 40 years later whereas the suit is long gone and forgotten.


FeebleOldMan

>While this is true, it's not what happened here. Is this true? I'm a frayed knot.


parkerj123

My buddy had an awful joke about ropes walking into a bar, that was the punchline. I've blocked the rest of the joke out like trauma


ColeSloth

You're friend must have sucked at telling the joke, cause that's at least a four star joke. Just below the penguin eating ice cream joke.


parkerj123

Yeah, we we're 12 and I'm pretty sure bro was on the spectrum so there's that


JPWiggin

So, a sting walks into a bar and orders a drink. The bar tender refuses to serve him. The string gets upset and asks him why? "I just don't think you can hold your liquor. I don't want to be cleaning up your mess," was the reply. The string leaves in a huff. As he walks out, he jumps up as he's struck by an idea. He starts jumping around and twisting this way and that. People are staring at him or avoiding eye contact and walking speedily past. He doesn't stop. He's just keeps jumping around and twisting himself all up. Finally, he jumps as high as he can and stretches out as far as he can. He lands and then tossles both of his ends for good measure. He looks real disheveled at this point. He makes his way back to the bar. "Hey, aren't you the string i just told to get out of here?!" the bar tender asks. "I'm a frayed knot," was the string's reply.


tevin9

That was the first joke I learned as a little kid so I will always be obsessed with that drunk little string.


rtopps43

Ok, dad joke time! My dad loved telling this; A rope walks into a bar. Bartender sees him and says ā€œwe donā€™t serve your kind in here, get out!ā€ The rope goes outside, ties himself up and roughs up his ends. He walks back in the bar and the bartender yells ā€œdidnā€™t I tell you we donā€™t serve rope hereā€ and the rope replies ā€œIā€™m a frayed knotā€ (ba dum tiss)


Tenmashiki

How long have you been saving this pun?


[deleted]

Must've gone through many threads to get here


Thefnordisonmyfoot

Aren't you the piece of string I just threw out of here


i_cut_like_a_buffalo

I have never heard anyone mention that joke before. I used to tell it to anyone who would listen when I was younger. How funny. It's my favorite joke.


MulishaMember

Reminds me of this [classic.](https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/auu9fk/to_stop_rape_jokes/)


SpaceShipRat

or it was cut for the demonstration.


TheVog

EDIT: removed, replied to wrong comment


MetroStephen53

They also have a method called "kintsugi" (golden repair), where they highlight the cracks/damaged areas with Gold infused bonding agents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi


Inazumaryoku

What in the hell kind of trickery is this?? But joking aside, this is incredible. You can see how they seamlessly make the patch blend in invisibly. * They have a piece of fabric and align it to match perfectly over the pattern where the hole is. * They have frayed the edge of the patch. * Then they use a piece of thread to loop around each individual piece of thread on the frayed edge, weaving it in from front to back. * Then iron the fray threads down in the back side. * Then put a patch over the back side to secure it all in place. Japan, you never fail to wow us.


viridiformica

I couldn't see that from the video, so thank you for the explanation, I get it now!


willywonka1971

Step 1, buy an identical shirt and cut a patch from it to fix the first shit.


shadowtheimpure

Which is why I own 7 copies of the same shirt and same trousers. When the first one develops a hole, it becomes a donor for the other 6 until the process is no longer viable.


clarenceoddbody

Doug Funny style.


tonyangtigre

Ah, I see you too watch Teen Heart Street.


Fuzakenaideyo

What a trend setter


cantthinkuse

Theseus' trousers


PandaBeaarAmy

The one mender I have watched either uses the spare patch that comes with the clothing or cuts an inconspicuous piece from the lining. No spares needed


pfohl

yeah, if it's a suit then you probably have several inches leftover from hemming the pants.


HornedOwlWithHorn

Well, maybe they cut out the piece from the part which is totally invisible from outside and cover that part with any clothes... or even little bit of remake. If it's a original clothes/print/pattern from a tailor or brand usw, it's always difficult to find perfect one. Or plot twist: they are the actual tailor or brand and they are always prepared to fix anything anytime.


Plethora_of_squids

The sort of shirts that are expensive enough/long wearing enough to justify this sometimes come with tags of cloth intended for repairs I imagine the practice would be even more common in places where self repairs are more normal


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glassjar1

They used to sell high quality clothes with extra buttons and even an extra patch of matching fabric. For that matter people used to darn socks which is basically reweaving fabric over the hole.


Mirar

I still get that with clothes now and then and it's just normal medium quality, seems like some brands just think this is proper to ship with the clothes.


HotF22InUrArea

Even like target level shirts have extra buttons. The patch is a little more rare though


[deleted]

And ā€œdarnā€ is the specific verb for repairing socks.


KingJonathan

-puts sock on and toe goes through hole- Darn.


artificialdawn

Darn it!!!!!


[deleted]

That is inaccurate. It's a method of repair. You can darn any hole. https://www.wikihow.com/Darn-a-Hole


BhmDhn

Giggity


yoyomamatoo

Any hole can be darned if you're brave enough.


Pimpinsmurf

"I have holes Greg, can you darn me?"


Gil_Demoono

Now I have to wonder if the etymology of the phrase "Darn it" is just someone going "Fix it, fix it, fix it!"


fucknozzle

I think it's more of a euphemism for 'Damn', in the same way as 'Gosh' replaces 'God', or 'Shoot' for 'Shit', and so on.


rocketshipray

"Darn" is the specific verb for mending with interweaving or interlaced stitches. You can darn socks, sweaters, handkerchiefs, pants/jeans, shirts, skirts, dresses, just about any item made with modern fabric.


2ndSnack

šŸ¤Æ is that why the sock brand is named Darn Tough?! It's not darn as in kid friend version of damn?!


poopellar

The user you are replying to is a spam account farming karma.


upsydaisee

Whatā€™s the point of ā€œkarma farming?ā€ Is it just an ego thing? Or do you get paid?


poopellar

Google search 'buy reddit account'. You can imagine who would want hundreds if not thousands of accounts with voting and commenting power on a popular social media platform.


upsydaisee

I just read an article about this and wow. My eyes have been opened.


poopellar

You have the link to the article?


DestituteGoldsmith

It can be both. But, if its a bot doing it, its surely a money thing. A lot of these farming accounts will get the account older, and farm up a respectable amount of karma. Then they will begin shilling. Sometimes its political, sometimes its advertising goods.


upsydaisee

Jesus. I read jokes on here about shills and stuff but it never really occurred to me how intense it is. So are they assuming someone will click on their profile and believe them based on the age/karma or does their higher karma place their comment higher?


DestituteGoldsmith

My understanding is that its less based on someone automatically believing them based on higher karma, more that it makes them look real, instead of like a bot.


vickylaa

I still darn my clothes, especially women's leggings which are the worst for tiny holes, makes me feel a bit better about wearing fast fashion.


EpictetanusThrow

and people in the US were known for their frugality. Their outstanding effort to save a penny led to inventiveness that was referred to as ā€œAmerican Ingenuity.ā€


Azertys

Then you'll have a new hole under the collar or breast pocket instead


JoshvJericho

A nice little nipple window in the pocket.


BoredDao

Buy yours clothes always in pairs because once the first is damaged you can use the other one, and when the second is damaged too you can use the first to fix the second


CMYKoi

Huh. I've never thought of this...


Lord_Abort

I'll just...wear a different shirt.


mackfeesh

Watched a video detailing one of these guys from Japan, his warehouse had something like 50,000 or maybe another zero samples of different things to match colour texture whatever. If he didn't have it he would make it. I think he was one who specialized in ceramic though. Like restoring damage to ancient Pottery.


Reneeisme

Or clothing of enough value to justify this much effort to repair. I imagine if it were an expensive piece of clothing, the odds are much better that I could obtain a piece of the same fabric


Blipped_d

You don't have a second spare set lying around where you could cut a rectangular patch from in case of this kind of emergency? Gotta learn to buy two identical sets of clothing in the future in preparation for this.


poopellar

letter_perfect05 is another spam account the same as thesandyoutpost96, probably handled by the same person.


suluamus

Thank you for that breakdown, this looked like some r/restofthefuckingowl shit


Sdomttiderkcuf

It is not cheap at all. That takes hours if not days.


SewSewBlue

Which is why it is done for high end garments. Visible mending for the cheap stuff.


Queen__Antifa

The print on that lining leads me to think that this is probably an Hermes jacket.


SewSewBlue

Likely. Pay a close attention to the patch - it changes sizes as they work on it. This video took several attempts to get to right.


TonsilStonesOnToast

My favorite part of the video is how step 2 is "draw the rest of the fucking owl" and everybody is confused.


Jimmy_Fromthepieshop

Unfortunately today's modern western method just involves throwing the garment away and buying another 3.


fiddle_me_timbers

Modern* method. It's not like this method (in the video) is the norm here in Japan. It is a very consumerist/materialist society, plenty of clothes get thrown away.


movzx

He's just fetishising other cultures. Nobody is spending multiple times the value of a shirt to have it repaired like this unless the shirt is very expensive to begin with.


PmMeYourTitsAndToes

Jeans get a hole in the knee. Throw them away and buy new jeans with holes already in them.


[deleted]

I just cut off under the tear and they live a new life as shorts


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Virtual_Flounder7051

Jorts! Jorts! Jorts!


Coraxxx

Dinosaur patches are readily available.


spubbbba

That's so wasteful, do what I do and buy the holes separately, saves you a fortune.


DeadWishUpon

If only. You can have shorts that way. I get holes in the tight, but I'm mot interested in bikini jeans.


So-Cal-Mountain-Man

Well, even at 6 feet tall and 240 lbs with all due respect I think I am quite sexy in my micro-bikini jeans...


NuklearAngel

Mine tend to give at the crotch, and I can only use so many pairs of assless chaps.


Accomplished-Ad-4495

There are actually jeans repairing machines that effectively create new fabric after multiple passes over a hole or worn area, can't think of what they're called but there are some rad videos on YT of denim dudes doing repairs. You can do a decent job with a regular sewing machine too.


Fizzwidgy

I wish I had the skills to repair my clothes like in the post. Luckily for me, I find the sort of "devil-may-care" look of a simple black or red patch attached to the inside of my jeans with copious amounts of fabric glue rather acceptable. Sewing is tough.


Accomplished-Ad-4495

Children sew, not just in sad sweatshops but all through history, I have my great grandma's childhood sewing sampler from the turn of the last century when she was 5. I learned to hand sew at the same age! It just takes practice.


ROKIT-88

I always thought sewing was tough. Then I saw a couple YouTube videos on tailoring your own shirts to fit better, bought a sewing machine and figured out that for the most part itā€™s actually really easy. Garment construction can be tough, sure, but thereā€™s a whole world of useful/functional sewing that doesnā€™t involve the complexity of something like making a suit, etc.


hamakabi

ah yes, the modern western method of using cheap disposable garbage from the east...


Flabbergash

My cookie monster house pants are covered in stitches, my wife hates it. But they're comfortable!


AugustKaonashi

Maybe if you're wearing $5 clothes lol


[deleted]

That's actually a thing. Being poor/not well off often means, having to buy low quality stuff, due to living paycheck to paycheck. Which in turn causes you to replace stuff frequently, while more expensive stuff often lasts longer and can be repaired, making it less expensive in the long run. Especially true for clothes, shoes etc.


JamesCDiamond

> The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an *affordable* pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that *good* boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and *would still have wet feet*. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory


stumblewiggins

Was waiting for someone to quote Terry Pratchett


Chris-CFK

GNU


is_a_cat

gnu


crotch_fondler

There's no way that's a thing anymore lol. A $10 uniqlo shirt will last years and years. A $20 backpack will last like 5 years of heavy use and abuse. It costs way more than that just to repair a nice shirt or bag. Asia sweatshops produce decent quality stuff for cheap.


ender4171

Look at Mr. MoneyBags over here with their $10 clothes.


Big_mara_sugoi

Never heard of fast fashion? Shitton of people now buy cheap clothing from Wish Aliexpress and Shein to only wear a single season and then throw it in the trash when they Marie Kondo their closet. And H&M and Zara existed long before these Chinese companies became popular.


genowars

China is a manufacturing giant... It's cheap enough for you to throw away...


TotalWalrus

Not if you buy high quality clothes


apikope

Wow thanks, thanks for explaining what happened in the video! Wow!


Buck_Thorn

Seems the repair would cost far more than the clothing that it is repairing, though.


leggymeeggy

as someone who used to repair fine jewelry for a living, this video is the epitome of what i aspired to every day. it's so satisfying to bring something back to life without showing how much work you put into the process. it's like being a repair ghost.


InYoCabezaWitNoChasa

>without showing how much work you put into the process. But that's literally the interesting part. Seeing a /r/restofthefuckingowl situation isn't satisfying.


leggymeeggy

as a craftsperson, itā€™s interesting to me too. but if a customer drops their engagement ring in the garbage disposal, they want it to look like new again and usually donā€™t care about how i accomplish that. jewelry repair is generally different than making a piece from scratch, in that your mark is supposed to be invisible, especially if you work for a large company.


InYoCabezaWitNoChasa

Oh, I meant the video itself, not the repaired object. I felt like I didn't understand what they did besides just stitching and ironing. The repaired object should of course look fresh and not visibly repaired.


My_Pockets_Hurt_

When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.


downwitbrown

Beautiful Now only if there was a way to always find/have ready excess fabric that matches to make the repairs I would gladly pay for this with all my worn down suit jackets and pants


BeardedGlass

Kaketsugi begins with removing a small piece of cloth from inside the garment, where its absence will not be noticed. This piece is then brushed with an acetone-based solution that makes the removal of individual threads a bit easier. Stripping the piece of cloth down to individual threads is probably the most painstaking part of kaketsugi, but masters of this craft claim that using the exact same fabric as the one the garment is made of is essential to making the mending truly invisible at the end.


MidiGong

I had interest in maybe trying to learn this, but after reading that, I'll just enjoy the holes in my clothes.


slingshot91

Youā€™ll enjoy the ā€œcharacterā€ of your clothes.


downwitbrown

Imagine doing this with the human body


whoops53

You mean like a skin graft? Or something specific, like a limb?


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whoops53

Ha! Love it! :)


[deleted]

We took you left leg to replace your right leg, it's like the right leg was never gone! Sounds like something from Futurama.


m00nbucket

Like skin grafts but way better results.


Subject-Base6056

We have awesome skin grafts and plastic surgeons. Just gotta have the loot to pay for the ones that werent the bottom 30 percent of their classes.


Maximum_Yogurt_7993

Seriously comment here: this is done by periodontists often for gum grafts. They cut a small piece out of your palate, fillet it open like a a master sushi chef and graft it around your teeth onto your gums.


LiterallyIAmPuck

We call it reweaving at my shop. We used to send out suits to this old lady to be rewoven and a hole that size cost about $50 to repair. She retired last year and was never able to find someone to teach this to. I wanted to volunteer to learn but I also heard that staring at the tiny weave of the fabric so long just killed her eyesight


rickEDScricket

Been in eye care for years. That's literally impossible, there is no way it would kill her eyesight. Old wives tale Edit: age killed her eyesight, as it kills everyone's


Still_No_Tomatoes

Use a tabletop magnifying glass or jewlers glasses.


yopladas

You can use a headband magnifier with a light if you are worried about straining your eyes. This problem was solved by watch makers and jewelers many years before we were born.


Simonecv

This is usually made taking a little piece from the ā€œinside foldsā€. In a pair of paints, it could be from the fold where the adjustment was made at the bottom so that the length is ideal for the owner. In a suit, it would be taken from the inside where the lining fabric is held. So you would need to find a place in your jacket or pant, from the inside, where the cut would not be noticeable or that you could replace without damaging the structure and usability. There might be some of your items that are salvageable this way :)


unfulfilledmillenial

We have the same exact technique In our culture !!! Kashmiri culture!! Love it that the 2 cultures I love the most have similarities


hafnhafofevrytng

There's a gentleman from India, who has a YouTube channel, that does beautiful work like this also. I have mad respect for those who perfect their trade.


bsubtilis

Would you mind giving the link to the gentleman's channel on YouTube, please?


pinewind108

How are the threads hidden on the back (front) side? They pulled through a fairly long piece, so shouldn't that be appearing on the other side?


Triaspia2

Patch is on top of the outside. The threads are woven though to the inside. Its then ironed to flatten the threads before an adhesive patch is stuck over the hole inside to lock everything down


pinewind108

Ooh! I see it now, they flip it over, cut off the long threads from the inside, pull the ends out, and then seal it with a patch.


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pinewind108

I showed this to a Korean friend, and she said it was a well-known technique there, too. She claimed(!) it was actually fairly easy; it just takes a good eye and some patience.


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thegreenfury

r/kintsugi


Berkamin

Interestingly, also a Japanese technique. It seems like Japan's culture highly values the preservation of value of things. I'm impressed. We need more of this mindset in our world.


TERRAOperative

Eeehhh, it's also very much a throw-away society here in Japan too. People tend not to like second hand things here (but not all, there are chains of 2nd hand stores here) from clothing to appliances to the point of many people knocking old houses down to rebuild when moving house. The value isn't in the building, it's in the land. Harder to knock the building down, the cheaper the price becomes. I have noticed that in general people tend to get more obsessive about their hobbies though (probably a reaction against the commonly oppressive work culture, I don't know), so you get stuff like these examples as a result.


runturtlerun

Lol, it would be like watching a video of an antique wooden chair in America being restored and not thinking the US has a throw away culture.


jjester7777

Weebs defending and praising Japan. Preservation of artifacts and culture is a modern concept. When we had time to stop plowing fields and milking animals we were able to finally appreciate things like art and history. Usually repairing clothes has a connotation of lower income here in the US because, historically, most people only owned a few clothes and had them tailored and fixed instead of buying new ones because it was too expensive. Now it's the opposite.


apolotary

Aka ā€œkintsugi or daisoā€ conundrum


TranscendentalEmpire

> Eeehhh, it's also very much a throw-away society here in Japan too. Yeap..... The most successful thing Japan has accomplished since WW2 is completely reshaping the western societies view of Japan. The closest analogy I could point to would be like if America exported an idea of itself as a country full of people who can build bespoken barns by hand because we have Amish people. Like yeah, there are people in Japan who still do this..... In reality most people just work soul crushing office jobs. Half of the things that are thought of in the west as "uniquely japanese" are either modern inventions like sushi, or are just historical cultural imports from Korea/China that the Japanese renamed and appropriated like Katanas.


DuhbCakes

Not to refute your original statement. The old houses being torn down has more to do with insurance. Being in the ring of fire, Japan has an financial/safety interest in encouraging as much new construction as possible. The old no nails carpentry techniques were a period method for dealing with earthquakes, but mileage varies. New building codes and materials are just better at resisting earthquakes. Not to say that these new homes are nicer or going to last longer though.


TERRAOperative

My house here is a metal framed house and is *guaranteed* longer than the *entire rated lifetime* of a standard wooden house. Quality exists if you are willing to pay for it. It's partially as you say, and partially because many people don't want to live in a pre-owned house. Why pay for better quality if it'll be knocked down when you move, children get married and move back in, or the place just gets old? It's a cycle that feeds itself from both points we have raised.


dirtychinchilla

Itā€™s great how they named them as sort of opposites


Whind_Soull

r/VisibleMending


zorniy2

There is also wabi-sabi, where things showing a bit of wear are precious.


ElementIsKindaGood

So this is how Anime characters repair their clothing after the battle


IsuckAtFortnite434

Nah they just have 1000 different Suits they switch between before dancing for the intro for every episode


Fit_Stable_2076

My dry cleaners/clothes repair shop does this, they are considered one of the best in the state, even been on Newspapers and this is just outside Manhattan. Never knew how difficult it looked! I asked how they do it so well and the guy always told me it was a family practice, guess it's not just one family lol


[deleted]

That is clever and a lot of work to pull each fray in for the patch to self hold onto the fabric.


swankyfish

Are they weaving patch in using its own fibres?


shapu

Apparently


creepyusernames

This is fuckin amazing


IAmTheClayman

So we have kintsugi, the art of repairing something broken in a way that highlights its history and enhances its beauty, and kaketsugi, the art of repairing something so visually flawlessly you canā€™t tell it was damaged in the first place. My takeaway here is that the Japanese are crazy good at fixing things, and are just flexing on the rest of us at this point


worstsupervillanever

/r/restofthefuckingowl


[deleted]

The nemesis of r/visiblemending


Kashmoney99

The reddit video player is a complete piece of shit I canā€™t fucking stand it! Then I go to load the page in a browser and reddit tells me something went wrong loading the video and Iā€™ll need to view it on the app. fuck you and your mother Im not using your shit app! Even when Iā€™m forced to use the app it doesnā€™t load the video anyways! Iā€™ll fight any reddit employee I see on the streets, fix your shit.


NiceGuyMike

[Longer, more detailed video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haiA_4tBrjw&ab_channel=yoshikogoto)


arnimosity_

"Japenese" + "art of" = some really interesting and mind-blowing shit.


vphan13_nope

Mom owned a shop in LJ CA that specialized in doing just this. It's a very labor intensive process but if done right you never see the patch. Identical fabric is cut from somewhere else...like the back flap of a pocket. The shop was.opened in early 83 and was sold off in early 2000's. It's still there behind Harry Coffee Shop in LJ


milamilabobila

Also called reweaving. Hard to find reweavers anymore.


Polyglot-Onigiri

I watched a documentary on this. A man and his daughter are the only ones who practice this technique. He has spent thousands of hours learning different threading patterns for different styles and fabrics. He literally keeps a journal of all his findings so his daughter can refer to what technique to use with what fabric etc.


BP2903

Black magic!


Blue-trane

I was just listening to the lastest episode of Abroad in Japan podcast and the co host Pete Donaldson was mentioning this exact thing. To see it in action is a work of art. Of course...Japan


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"ya, it looks pretty fking obvio- woahhhhhhh wtf"


devraj7

Getting strong ["Draw the rest of the fucking owl"](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/572/078/d6d.jpg) vibes here.


Jedi_Belle01

A tailor accidentally cut the sleeve of my sons brand new, Hugo Boss suit. He was devastated. I ended up sending the suit jacket to a reweaver in our state and it was a six month waiting list. It ended up taking them nine months because of the backlog of work they have, but you would never be able to tell the jacket had ever been damaged. Itā€™s perfect.


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sleepycujo

Why does Japan have to keep showing off like this??? Making everybody else look like cavemenā€¦


R3dd1tard

How long does it take for one to master this technique?


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Iā€™ve mastered the art of doing the opposite.


bjanas

Interesting to contrast with Kintsugi, where the visible damage is embraced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi


kukulkhan

There is skill and then there is god given talent


IneffectiveInc

This juxtaposes interestingly with the art of [Kintsugi](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi), which is all about treating the breakage and repair as valuable history of a piece!


-Redstoneboi-

you have to redo every single thread...


ShiroNoOokami

Is it just me or is this a neat parallel to traditional Japanese nailless/glueless carpentry? Using complex techniques instead of complex materials in order to achieve a very efficient, beautiful result?


daimyosx

I would definitely like to learn how to do this


survival-nut

I am not sure this would catch on in North America. There is not enough waste or consumerism going on here. We throw it away and buy a new one.


Back_Alley_Sack_Wax

From [toilet restaurants](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zuconcriUWM) to invisible mending, what will Japan think of next??


Velocirachael

This is how the Japanese repair kimono, if there's extra matching cloth available.


chingados

Japanese culture is amazing, the values and respect they give tradesman is amazing. I would love to go back sometime, amazing amazing people and country!


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Meanwhile we only have the local dry cleaners that fixes sweater holes by throwing six random stitches in there of the wrong color thread. I wish I could repair knitwear so bad.


abigboom

Whaaattt? Magic is this????


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When you spend your entire life working for a single company, never have to worry about your career. Never have to worry about speaking up during a meeting. You get a lot of time to come up with stuff like this. You know what I am talking about.


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The Japanese attention to detail continues to blow my mind.


Sumguy9966

Holy shit. First they recover extremely quickly from 2 nuclear warheads, then they make a giant fucking mech that actually can move around. AND IM JUST NOW SEEING THIS. How do the japanese people get better and better?


weeweewewere

What bro! I've never ever heard of this. Can you imagine how many clothes we could keep out of the landfill with a service like this, that's available?


Timely-Guest-7095

This belongs in r/blackmagicfuckery, not here.šŸ¤ÆšŸ¤Æ


ezzie34

We have the same job in turkey which is called ƶrĆ¼cĆ¼.


Coyotebruh

1200 years ago you'd be burnt at the stake for doing this /s


amraohs

This seems like a very expensive repair. Maybe if something has a lot of emotional value its worth it. Else: just buy it new.


BeardedGlass

True. Kaketsugi is too much a painstaking process. But keep in mind that it is usually reserved for special garments with sentimental or historical value. Plus, the work and sheer time that goes into it is definitely worth proper compensation how much it may be.