Textiles and fibres

This book is a hands-on guide that discusses quality management in spinning.

Lena Santana has devised a collection of simple, beautifully made sewing projects that serve as a perfect introduction to dressmaking.

An increasing amount of waste is generated each year from textiles and their production.

With increasing concerns regarding the effect the textile industry is having on the environment, more and more textile researchers, producers and manufacturers are looking to biodegradable and sustainable fibres as an effective way of reducing the impact textiles have on the environment.

Smart and Functional Textiles is an application-oriented book covering a wide range of areas from multifunctional nanofinished textiles, coated and laminated textiles, wearable e-textiles, textile-based sensors and actuators, thermoregulating textiles, to smart medical textiles and stimuli-responsive textiles.

Additive Manufacturing of Polymer Composites: Materials, Processes, and Properties presents the latest developments in AM of polymer matrix composites and illustrates the large range of composite materials that can be obtained.

This collection of topical essays by academics and industry professionals brings a unique lens to the issues broached, questions raised, and solutions offered regarding the history and advancement of digital fashion.

No cloth can be woven without desired and adequate tensions of its constituent warp and weft yarns.

The production of 'polymer nanocomposites' has recently gained considerable attention from both the academic and industrial community, especially in the area of nanoscience.

Advances in Carpet Manufacture, Second Edition, discusses the manufacture of carpets, an industry that has evolved over hundreds of years, also exploring the new changes and developments in textile science and manufacturing technology that occur every day.

Growing awareness of environmental issues has led to increasing demand for goods produced from natural products, including natural fibres.

Dyeing is one of the most effective and popular methods used for colouring textiles and other materials.

A richly illustrated history of textiles in the Mughal EmpireIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a vast array of textiles circulated throughout the Mughal Empire.

Advances in Renewable Natural Materials for Textile Sustainability promotes sustainable practices in the textile industry through exploring the use of natural materials in textile production.

Materials and Technology for Sportswear and Performance Apparel takes a close look at the design and development of functional apparel designed for high-performance sportswear.

Plant Tuber and Root-based Biocomposites: Development, Characterization, and Applications discusses the latest advances in this important research field.

This book, 'Fibre production in South American camelids and other fibre animals', covers the latest advances in the main fields of animals producing fibre.

Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificacion profesional y adquisicion de certificados de profesionalidad.

Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificacion profesional y adquisicion de certificados de profesionalidad.

La crisis del 2007-2008 supuso, para la industria en general, un importante impacto negativo.

El libro quiere ser un inventario de la técnica y representa el desarrollo de los últimos años.

Characterization Techniques for Bionanocomposites: Advances, Challenges, and Applications provides a detailed review of current techniques used for the characterization of bionanocomposites.

Plant Tuber and Root-based Biocomposites: Development, Characterization, and Applications discusses the latest advances in this important research field.

Urban textile mills shaped European cities from the late 18th century.

Advances in Renewable Natural Materials for Textile Sustainability promotes sustainable practices in the textile industry through exploring the use of natural materials in textile production.

Advanced Functional Nanocomposites Based on Oxide and Carbon Nanofibers: Design, Manufacturing, and Applications delves into the latest research on creating functional composite fibers.

Currently, most of the textile industry and textile institutions are located in South Asia.

Currently, most of the textile industry and textile institutions are located in South Asia.

This book presents all information necessary to understand the functioning of a slurry loop reactor for the polymerisation of ethylene into high density polyethylene, and to operate it accordingly.

This book presents all information necessary to understand the functioning of a slurry loop reactor for the polymerisation of ethylene into high density polyethylene, and to operate it accordingly.

Additive Manufacturing of Polymer Composites: Materials, Processes, and Properties presents the latest developments in AM of polymer matrix composites and illustrates the large range of composite materials that can be obtained.

Exquisite and sumptuous, immaculately tailored, dignified and, above all, practical.

15 beautiful embroidery projects from the era of Jane Austen.

Adaptive polymers include those which are responsive to different stimuli - namely physical, mechanical, chemical and biological - with controlled and/or predicable behavior.

This study covers impact response, damage tolerance and failure of fibre-reinforced composite materials and structures.

Environmental impact of textiles examines what effects all phases of textile production and use have on the environment, from growing or making fibres to discarding a product after its useful life has ended.

This book presents a comprehensive treatment of both functional and decorative textiles used in the automotive industry including seat covers, headliners, airbags, seat belts and tyres.

This book encompasses a wide range of mathematical concepts relating to regularly repeating surface decoration from basic principles of symmetry to more complex issues of graph theory, group theory and topology.

Pultrusion for engineers is a comprehensive overview of the latest developments and applications for this growing and increasingly important area of the fibre reinforced plastics industry.

This very practical book is intended to show how composites are increasingly being used in real-world applications in areas where the primary material choice in the past would have been exclusively metals-based.

In this book leading experts within the industry come together to give the first comprehensive treatments of the science and technology of wool to be published in over 20 years.

This important book provides a guide to the fundamentals and latest developments in smart technology for textiles and clothing.

Over the last 50 years, great progress has been made in developing artificial fibre-reinforced composite materials, generally using filaments with microscopic diameters.

Designers in the textile industry have a wide range of roles and responsibilities and are frequently required to make design decisions throughout the manufacturing process.

Fancy yarns are those produced with some deliberate discontinuity introduced either into the colour or form of the article with the intention of producing an enhanced aesthetic impression.

Coating and lamination offer methods of improving and modifying the physical properties and appearance of fabrics and also the development of entirely new products by combining the benefits of fabrics, polymers and films.

The purpose of aligning short fibres in a fibre-reinforced material is to improve the mechanical properties of the resulting composite.

With the increasingly important requirement for textile manufacturers to reduce pollution in textile production, the use of enzymes in the chemical processing of fibres and textiles is rapidly gaining wider recognition because of their non-toxic and eco-friendly characteristics.