Garment Care
Heirloom Garment Preservation Guide
How to keep precious handmade garments — wedding outfits, christening gowns, ancestral embroidery — safe for the next…
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Hand embroidery guides from people who actually stitch.
Honest guides to hand embroidery, fabric care and slow fashion — from your very first stitch to the heirloom garment you will hand down one day.
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Wash, store and rescue cotton, silk, linen, wool and more.
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Phulkari, chikankari, shisha, kantha and stitches in between.
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Mending Tears & Holes by Hand
Don't retire a beloved handmade garment over a tear. Hand-mending techniques for straight tears, L-shaped rips, holes, and…
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Fabric Care
Fabric Comparison: Cotton vs Linen vs Silk
The three classic natural fibres, compared honestly: how cotton, linen, and silk behave when you sew them, wear…
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Fabric Care
Pattern Transfer Methods Compared
Seven ways to get a design onto fabric — lightbox tracing, transfer pens, carbon paper, prick-and-pounce, stabilizers, and…
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Garment Care
Monsoon Care for Handmade Garments
Humidity is the quiet enemy of handmade clothes. A practical monsoon survival guide: drying without sun damage, preventing…
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Colorfastness Testing at Home
Before you wash, embroider, or combine fabrics: simple at-home tests that reveal whether a dye will bleed, crock,…
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Faorms is a small editorial blog about handmade clothes and embroidery. We write the guides we wish we had when we started — tested in a real workshop, with real measurements, honest mistakes and no shortcuts.
Edited by Amina Raza & Danish Ali