At the first meeting of the new mending club at the Edgartown Library, exhibit A was a pair of ripped denim pants, torn and paint stained.

Woven, a new exhibit at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, invites people to share in the historic craft and hear the stories of early Island basket weavers, seamstresses and eel trappers.

Sofi Thanhauser's new book, Worn: A People’s History of Clothing, tracks the social history of five main fabrics — linen, cotton, silk, synthetics and wool.