Friends, it’s been a year since I’ve offered any personalized books on The Mending Space site and I am so happy to share The Keeper and The Thread Would Not Hold with you again! I took advantage of a recent discounted printing of these volumes and am passing that savings on to you!

H A R D C O V E R_ D E T A I L S

When you purchase The Keeper or The Thread Will Not Hold, you will receive:

— Hardcover edition of exceptional quality

— Copy signed and personalized just for you

— Handwritten note

— Sari ribbon bookmark, eco-stained in The Mending Space studio

— “You are loved” angel wing card

— Some additional Mending Space goodies

S H I P P I N G _ D E T A I L S

Hardcover edition will be shipped via USPS Domestic Media Mail within the United States.

Hardcover edition will be shipped via USPS International First Class to all other countries.

Tracking is available for both services and will be provided upon shipping.

Please Note: If you are outside the US, The Mending Space does not cover any additional customs fees.

T H E _ T H R E A D _ W O U L D _ N O T _ H O L D ( 2 0 2 3 )

Square orientation
7×7 in, 18×18 cm
58 silky full-color pages of original textile art and poetry

While her textile work under The Mending Space began in 2010 as a gentle revolution of redemption, Krista eventually discovered that in mending, as in life, repair isn’t always possible. Chronic illness, deep grief, and bold honesty grounded her in a new wisdom:

Sometimes the most compassionate thing we do is release the threadbare scraps.

Sometimes the most healing thing we do is let the patchwork of pain disintegrate.

Sometimes, even in the mending space, there is a place for the rending.

Created with equal parts care and abandon, Krista’s third volume of textile art and original poetry sings with quiet confidence and fierce beauty.

To everything, there is a season: a time to mend and a time to pull threads. This is what Krista heard in the rending years, when the thread would not hold.

T H E _ K E E P E R ( 2 0 2 0 )

Landscape orientation
10×8 in, 25×20 cm
80 silky full-color pages of original textile art and poetry

In her second volume merging textile work and poetry, Krista Barmer invites us to venture to the far-off places within. To the places where perfection, constraint, and convention fade away. To the places where daring and desire, healing and reclaiming are the taproots of an abundant harvest. To the places where all matter is divine.

​In The Keeper, we find a hard-won love letter to the self, honoring inherent dignity, patient expansion, and quiet confidence.