The Swift Darning Loom is a mending tool! It helps you to quickly repair fabric by weaving a patch over a damaged area. The hooks hold your yarn in place and help you maintain a consistent tension for a tidy, flat patch. It’s our upcycled take on classic vintage designs that have been around since the late 1800s.

Like its vintage predecessors, the Swift Darning Loom is an heirloom in the making -- this time, with a modern and earth-conscious twist.

Wrap your yarn around a hook and stitch it down into your fabric at the bottom to build your warp (vertical threads). The 14 hooks on the loom body flip back and forth, lifting and lowering alternate threads. As you darn, you slip your needle through all of the loops, stitch down at the end, flip the hooks and repeat the process all the way to the top. The width of the hooks moves your threads up and down subtly as you flip the hooks side to side, so you can very easily create an over-and-under woven pattern. It's a lot faster than weaving over and under manually, and you can achieve a tidy, even patch even as a beginner.

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We designed this loom with our core values in mind. We use reclaimed solid hardwood paired with high-quality birch plywood for the base, reclaimed stainless steel bicycle spokes for the characteristic hooks, and stainless steel hardware to hold everything together. The wood is sanded to a fine finish and left bare, allowing it the potential to develop a beautiful patina with age and use.

Each of the work surfaces is unique in character, and in many cases the original finish is left intact as a hat-tip to the previous life that the wood has already enjoyed, often as a table, desk, or bedframe!

Everything in our Swift Darning Loom line as well as all other Worth Mending products and accessories is handmade by our small team here in Kitchener.

We work out of the Kwartzlab Makerspace in Kitchener Ontario, Canada. We source locally and secondhand wherever we can (more than 75% of all of our materials are reclaimed from unusable consumer goods!). By purchasing from us, you’re directly supporting our livelihood as creative artisans and small business owners, as well as our volunteer-run makerspace! We’re so grateful you’re here.

I will admit that darning a sock takes a heck of a lot longer than buying a new sock, but a heck of a lot LESS time than knitting a new sock, which was more commonly the standard for comparison in times past. These days, I love mending socks and extending their functional life for the reduced environmental and social impact as much as for the money saved from not going out and buying new socks. But mostly I love it for the art and the intention behind the act of mending.