Garment Repairs

Garment Repairs allows you not lose your favourite clothing just because they are ripped or worn, getting clothes repaired also means your doing you bit to make sure more clothes don’t get dumped in landfills. The simplest way to repair small holes in fabric is to darn them. Darning is a sort of weaving process that covers the hole and stops it getting worse without the bulkiness of patching. Strictly speaking, it's possible to darn almost any type of fabric, but it's very difficult to do successfully with fine fabrics and modern materials that are prone to fraying, and it's impossible to make it look neat on shiny fabric. Some types of fabric can be easily repaired using patches. With the exception of heavy-pile fabrics like fake furs, where the long fibres can hide the edges, this is very difficult to do discreetly, but using very small stitches and pressing the finished piece will help. Often it's a better idea to acknowledge the patch and make it decorative so that it becomes a feature rather than looking a mess. Because a patch won't prevent a hole from tearing further where the original fabric is weak, it can be a good idea to patch a damaged piece of fabric on both sides. If you use a lightweight lining fabric on the inside it will flex easily and won't look lumpy.

Excel Press offer a service we believe to be unique to the UK’s formalwear marketplace. We offer a complete processing and finishing service to the highest retail standard. Excellent quality reprocessing is an essential service in the pre-delivery resource requirements of the garment distribution and supply business.

If you would like any more information on our Garment Repairs that we sell or want to make an order, you can call Excel Press +44 (0)1773 528101 or fax us on +44 (0)1773 528104. Alternatively you can email Excel Press at info@excelpress.ltd.uk. We aim to reply to all of our enquiries as quickly as possible, to discuss comments or queries that you may have.