The Mender's Manual: Repairing and Preserving Garments and Bedding by Estelle Foote (Very Good, 1976, HC, 180 pgs, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, First Edition)

Dust jacket has light wear; cover and pages have almost no wear. ISBN 0151591504

The Mender's Manual: Repairing and Preserving Garments and Bedding is a practical, step-by-step guide to mending clothes and household items. The book focuses on extending the life of textiles through repair rather than replacement. 

Key features of the book include:

• Techniques for Various Damages: It provides instructions for repairing rips, ruptures, frays, and puckers on any fabric, including specific methods for knitted materials, invisible woven-in mending, and crotch repairs.
• Household Items: Beyond clothing, the manual covers mending bedding and other household textiles.
• Creative Upcycling: A section titled "Other Problems" offers tips on making bias binding, creating rag dolls from yarn, and turning fabric discards into new items. 
  Illustrations: The book is illustrated with 73 simple pen and ink drawings by Gary Tong, demonstrating tasks like folded-in frayed cuffs and machine darning.
• Target Audience: It is designed for home menders, offering clear, humble instructions (Foote admits her own limitations with certain complex techniques like Swiss darning) for preserving beloved garments like sweaters and tweed jackets.
• The book is part of the mid-20th-century domestic craft movement, emphasizing self-sufficiency and the preservation of clothing, contrasting with later "visible mending" movements that treat repair as an art form or political statement