Fashion and textile design

The author of Battle for Paris 1815 examines the uniforms and equipment of the cavalry of Napoleon's Imperial Guard.

A biography of the French fashion icon that unveils the private life behind the public image.

The author of Battle for Paris 1815 examines the uniforms and equipment of the infantry of Napoleon's Imperial Guard.

This illustrated volume explores what fashion history can reveal about the lives of your British ancestors.

Activewear, sportswear, athleisure, and loungewear are all gaining popularity in the fashion industry and course curriculum.

Patternmaking for Menswear: Classic to Contemporary, Second Edition is the most current, comprehensive, and user-friendly book for men's patternmaking.

In 1951, Alvin Cramer Segal, at the age of eighteen and without a formal education, started working in the factory of his stepfather's company in Montreal.

In 1951, Alvin Cramer Segal, at the age of eighteen and without a formal education, started working in the factory of his stepfather's company in Montreal.

This popular volume on the culture of hair through human history and around the globe has been updated and revised to include even more entries and current information.

This accessible beginner's guide covers everything you need to know to start knitting, featuring clear, step-by-step, photo-illustrated instructions.

This accessible beginner's guide covers everything you need to know to start crocheting, featuring clear, step-by-step, photo-illustrated instructions.

Explores both Zambian dress practices from the late-colonial period until the present and African contributions to globally circulating fashions.

Style Wise: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Fashion Stylist is an essential step-by-step guide and reference tool for anyone interested or involved in professional styling.

For the fashion designer seeking employment, a well-prepared portfolio is an essential marketing tool.

Portfolio Presentation for Fashion Designers, Fourth Edition, is still your best guide to showing your designs, skill sets, and creativity, to get you that job.

"e;This is the most comprehensive teaching tool for learning and mastering draping techniques.

With hundreds of step-by-step illustrated instructions and a user-friendly, stay-flat format, Patternmaking with Stretch Knit Fabrics provides emerging fashion designers with comprehensive information on how to draft patterns for popular cut-and-sew stretch knit fabrics such as jersey and knits with spandex.

Fitting and Pattern Alteration: A Multi-Method Approach to the Art of Style Selection, Fitting, and Alteration, Third Edition, shows readers how to recognize, evaluate, and correct fit for 88 figure variations.

Menswear: Business to Style explores the historical beginnings of menswear, setting the stage for today's diverse and exciting industry and preparing students to assume a role in the business as it continues to evolve.

Who's Who in Fashion captures the energy, drama, and excitement of the luminaries working in the world of fashion.

Guide to Fashion Entrepreneurship delves into a comprehensive, step-by-step entrepreneurial action plan that investigates how fashion product concepts are created, branded, sourced, marketed, channeled, and merchandised.

Surface Design for Fabric is a comprehensive, how-to guide to more than 60 surface design techniques for various fabrics and leather-ranging from the traditional to the experimental.

The fourth edition of Merchandise Buying and Management has been updated to cover the most current information on merchandising and retailing.

The Art of Couture Sewing, 2nd Edition is a practical guide to custom techniques in the construction of couture garments.

A Guide to Fashion Sewing, 6th Edition, provides a comprehensive fashion sewing resource for beginning and advanced sewers alike.

Dressing the Resistance is a celebration of how we use clothing, fashion, and costume to ignite activism and spur social change.

The plant-lovers alternative to the Pantone color guide.

Keiko Okamoto's Japanese Knitting Stitches presents 150 exquisite knitting and crochet stitches from one of Japan's most prolific and innovative designers.

Japanese-style crochet is getting ready to sweep the globe!

Historical Style connects the birth of eighteenth-century British consumer society to the rise of historical self-consciousness.

Why do you want your child to learn about fashion?

This book is specially made for the toddlers out there who can't seem to wait to grow up.

As the largest living group on earth, insects can provide us with insight into adaptation, evolution, and survival.

Exoticisation undressed is an innovative ethnography that makes visible the many layers through which our understandings of indigenous cultures are filtered and their inherent power to distort and refract understanding.

This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan, which emerged during the 1960s and continues to inspire designers today.

An indispensable reference source for all professionals and students of entomology and related disciplines.

20 fabulous fabric designers put a modern spin on classic quilt blocks in this fully illustrated and thoroughly inspiring guide.

This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan, which emerged during the 1960s and continues to inspire designers today.

This step-by-step introduction to grading combines the theory of pattern grading with its practical applications.

The quilter, pattern designer, and author of Patchwork City offers 12 exciting new patterns designed to help you take your skills to the next level.

The classic book on the art and history of weaving-now expanded and in full colorWritten by one of the twentieth century's leading textile artists, this splendidly illustrated book is a luminous meditation on the art of weaving, its history, its tools and techniques, and its implications for modern design.

Start sewing in no time with the basics broken down to the simplest form and five key garment projects to build up your skills and confidence.

Edith Head is probably the most iconic of all Hollywood costume designers.

Class insecta is numerically the largest class of the largest phylum outnumbering the total number of all the other known species of the rest of the animal kingdom.

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The most comprehensive and up-to-date general reference book on honey bee biologyHoney bees are marvelously charismatic organisms with a long history of interaction with humans.

Next-level swords, shields, and more thermoplastic cosplay props!

Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.

This new edition of a classic work offers a concise introduction to the sociology of fashion, and demystifies the workings of the fashion system.

Have you ever opened your wardrobe, filled with clothes, and felt you had nothing to wear?