Free Mending Library in San Fran that Creates Community

[OneGrassRoot]

On the 15th of every month, Michael Swaine trundles into San Francisco’s Tenderloin district with a cart-mounted sewing machine—the old-fashioned kind, which you can only operate by means of a treadle. Setting up shop on a street corner, as he has done so for the past 12 years, Swaine offers his services as a tailor, mending whatever clothing the neighborhood’s residents bring him for free. A performance artist, an inventor, and a professor of ceramics at the California College of Arts, Swaine sees opportunities for change everywhere. Among his larger ambitions is the construction of a free “mending library,” a place for “fixing the holes in our lives…to borrow thread and sewing machines and talk about life.”

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[arcane1]

1. I love San Francisco :)

[cyberswede]

2. Cool! And...

it's a people-powered machine, to boot. Awesome!

[shenmue]

3. Awww, sweet

[lunatica]

4. He sounds like a member of Occupy

This could so easily be used in the bartering system. This taylor could get everything he and his family need just by doing what he's doing now.

[OneGrassRoot]

5. Most definitely. :) n/t