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This research was based on a need to repair a national costume and willingness to document the repair process. The product repaired was an old national costume from Kemiö district. The main research question was: how to repair an old national costume. The sub-questions of the research were: how to define the version of the dress, what are the limitations which the dress itself is causing to the repair options and how the traditional sewing methods of a national dress could be utilized in the repair process. Several factors were impacting the repair process, such as: traditions, the features of the dress and the target identified by the researcher. Kemiö is located in the Swedish speaking area of Finland, and therefore the aim was also to find out whether there was any special guidance related to the traditions of Swedish speaking area's national costumes. There were several problems in the costume, such as the incorrectness of some parts compared to the model costume, incorrect sewing methods used, poor shape of some items and the wrong size of some items. The research strategy used was a case study research and the research method was autoethnography. Some features of the practice-led research were utilized as well. The data consists of narratives and notes written by the researcher during the research process as well as photographs of phases before and after repair. The data was analyzed by reflecting the narratives and the analysis is merged with the data. The best suitable practices regarding the repair of this specific national costume taking into consideration the targets defined by the researcher were identified as a result of this research. Some of the research results can benefit other repair processes as well, even though the target was not to create generalizable guidance.