Textopia
A tiny alterations shop in a Seoul alley. On the night a redevelopment notice lands in her hands, the mender Yiseo follows a single thread and tumbles into Textopia, a world where clothes breathe and live.
A torn dress speaks of its wounds; a worn jacket aches for the one who left it. As the shadow of Iron Stitch — which demands nothing but "perfect" clothes — spreads across the land, Yiseo takes up a single needle and begins to mend cloth and heart alike. A gentle adventure that gives discarded things a second name.
The Complete Trilogy
Won't Be Mended
Volume 1 (Parts 1–2)
Fallen into a strange world, Yiseo opens the door of her mending shop, 'One Stitch.' First customers, first friends — and a gathering shadow.
Iron Stitch
Volume 2 (Parts 3–4)
The rule of 'perfection' tightens around the continent. With friends from the six lands, Yiseo draws closer to the secret of the Needle Tower.
Stitch
Volume 3 (Part 5)
The greatest mending the world has ever known begins. In the name of every discarded thing — the last stitch.
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Two of us started a publishing house. Three, if you count the AI.
Matthew and Anna were colleagues at the same company. After going independent, they teamed up again — they simply work well together — to build this project side by side. One lays down the story's bones and its systems; the other breathes it to life with the feel of fabric and with pictures. When our hands fall short, AI lends a few more. So we are small, but never slow.
A 'seam allowance' is the little extra you leave behind to finish a garment. We believe that even discarded cloth — even discarded stories — carry a seam allowance of their own. That is how our publishing house found its name.
News
The Textopia ebook arrives in summer 2026
We're preparing to release the complete trilogy all at once. Catch the behind-the-scenes on Instagram and in our newsletter.