Fashion and textile design

Creating sustainable fashion has never been more important.

With step-by-step written instructions, Draping Basics provides the fundamentals of designing foundation garments by draping fabric on a dress form.

Fashion, Upcycling, and Memory questions practices and explores its profound connection to memory and sustainability.

Ob Tuch, Schal, Loop und Pulli oder Kissen, Decke und Tasche: Diese Häkelprojekte zeigen die Vielseitigkeit des Noppenmusters.

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This concise encyclopedia examines headwear around the world, from ancient times to the modern era, comprising entries that address cultural significance, religion, historical events, geography, demographic and ethnic issues, fashion, and contemporary trends.

Repeating patterns can soothe or energize us, bringing joy and harmony to everyday life.

Der Band basiert auf Vorträgen einer Tagung des Instituts für Musikwissenschaft Weimar-Jena, die sich mit Musikerinnen und Musikern befasste, die in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus ausgegrenzt, verfolgt, zum Exil gezwungen oder ermordet wurden.

This colourfully illustrated guide introduces new and established crafters to the traditional skills of hooking and its close relations prodding, punching and tufting.

In the shops of London's Oxford Street, girls wear patterned scarves over their hair as they cluster around makeup counters.

Odour in Textiles: Generation and Control presents the essential science and mechanisms behind the formation of odours in textiles.

Worin liegt der Nutzen der Dessous, die heutzutage sowohl in denMagazinen als auch auf großen Litfass-Säulen oder Plakatwändebeherrschenden Postern zu finden sind und die Körperformgerechter Models umhüllen?

For hundreds of years consumers and scholars have acknowledged that food is affected by the same rapid shifts in taste and consumption as clothing.

Delve into the art of menswear illustration and learn what it takes to create professional, praiseworthy fashion sketches.

Costume is an active agent for performance-making; it is a material object that embodies ideas shaped through collaborative creative work.

This book explores different strands of thinking about sexuality education in contemporary urban India.

Contained within this book is a classic guide to weaving, focusing on weaving narrow pieces of fabric.

Eine Geschichte der Frauen in der Buchbranche von Anna Vandenhoeck bis Ulla Berkéwicz.

Wie sehen die denn aus?

We live in a world obsessed by luxury.

In the context of gun proliferation and persistent gun violence in the United States, a controversial security strategy has gained public attention: bulletproof fashion.

Updated throughout for the new edition, Armour: Materials, Theory, and Design covers extant and emergent protection technologies driving advances in armour systems.

Addressing the subject of clothing in relation to such fundamental issues as national identity, social distinction, gender, the body, religion and politics, Clothing Culture, 1350-1650 provides a springboard into one of the most fascinating yet least understood aspects of social and cultural history.

Providing insight into a broad and expanding range of topics, The Meanings of Dress, 5th Edition examines social, behavioral, and cultural aspects in fashion and dress based on current research and practices.

Addressing the subject of clothing in relation to such fundamental issues as national identity, social distinction, gender, the body, religion and politics, Clothing Culture, 1350-1650 provides a springboard into one of the most fascinating yet least understood aspects of social and cultural history.

Previous work discussing Black beauty has tended to concentrate on Black women's search for white beauty as a consequence of racialization.

Introduction to AccuMark, Pattern Design, and Product Data Management provides step-by-step instructions to Gerber Technology's in-demand software programs.

This book challenges law's reliance on neurology's brain-sex binary.

Drawing on theoretical and empirical insights from art teachers in Canada and Europe, this edited volume explores the question of how learning in the arts can be effectively and fairly assessed in the context of higher education.

What would happen if we turned our back on fast fashion trends?

Food and Fashion accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum at FIT, New York's only museum dedicated solely to the art of fashion.

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

Often described as the "e;hottest"e; retail phenomenon, ephemeral retail concerns the growth of pop-up stores as a new mode of retailing.

Minoan ladies, Scythian warriors, Roman and Sarmatian merchants, prehistoric weavers, gold sheet figures, Vikings, Medieval saints and sinners, Renaissance noblemen, Danish peasants, dressmakers and Hollywood stars appear in the pages of this anthology.

Unlock the Secrets of Tomorrow's Style Today!

Principally focussed on the combing process, the initial chapters of this book explain the basic functioning of the conventional comber, which is not very different from modern combing.

A first-of-its-kind Japanese crochet stitch dictionary!

In Conscious Crafts: Knitting, co-founders of the Black Girl Knit Club unpick the meditative nature of the knitting process and its empowering skill set for creating, well-being and mindfulness.

Fashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are not always easily identifiable.

'He makes us see a subject we thought we knew so well from a completely different angle; in writing that is deeply researched, but inviting, warm, and full of personality' Katy Hessel'Charlie Porter is a magician' Olivia Laing Why do we wear what we wear?

The 50 key modes, garments, and designers, each explained in half a minute!

Galliano: Spectacular Fashion is the first detailed guide to the work of one of fashion's greatest talents.

Featuring over 450 archival photographs and line drawings, Chinese Dress traces the evolution of Chinese clothing from court and formal costumes to the fashions of modern China.

For hundreds of years consumers and scholars have acknowledged that food is affected by the same rapid shifts in taste and consumption as clothing.

Behind nearly every item in the modern wardrobe is a first of its kind - the definitive item, often designed by a single company or brand for specialist use, on which all subsequent versions have been based (and originals of which are now collector items in the booming vintage market).

In this unique intervention in the study of queer culture, Dominic Janes highlights that, under the gaze of social conservatism, 'gay' life was hiding in plain sight.

A well-illustrated cultural history of the apparel worn by American Catholics, Sally Dwyer-McNulty's Common Threads reveals the transnational origins and homegrown significance of clothing in developing identity, unity, and a sense of respectability for a major religious group that had long struggled for its footing in a Protestant-dominated society often openly hostile to Catholics.

Whether fashionable or functional-or both-pockets are an important design detail that can enhance the aesthetic of your collection and improve the experience of the wearer.