The act of repairing something that is broken or torn.
From Old English 'mendan', related to the concept of making whole or repairing. The '-ing' suffix converts the verb into a noun (gerund), representing the action or process itself.
Before modern consumer culture, 'mending' was a crucial life skill—people would spend hours carefully repairing clothes and items because replacing them was too expensive. The decline of mending is actually why fast fashion became possible; we stopped valuing repair and started expecting disposability.
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