Fashion and textile design

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.

Opportunities in the fashion design industry are expected to rise about 10 to 12 percent through 2013.

Turn people's expectations on their heads by being a Goth with good manners with this fully illustrated guidebook to day-to-day Goth living.

In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power.

The French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943), a contemporary of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, remains in every way a thinker for our times.

For any market to work properly, certain key elements are necessary: competition, pricing, rules, clearly defined offers, and easy access to information.

Christian Diors zeitloses ModeABC – nach über 50 Jahren erstmals wieder in deutscher Sprache erhältlich!

Versatile, stylish and sustainable, this stunning collection of patterns includes snuggly mittens and beanies as well as chunky sweaters, flattering dresses, cool summer tops and even a zipped skirt.

Asking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century, Kenny illustrates how heritage and identity do not simply exist, but are continually being constructed to reflect particular historical circumstances.

The colour forecasting process is a major driving force in the fashion and textile industries but is complex, highly intuitive and little understood.

**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK** **WATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE MONTH**'An astonishing feat'Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'An inspiring and moving sideways look at history'Eithne Farry, Sunday Express An eloquent blend of history and memoir, Threads of Life is an evocative and moving book about the need we all have to tell our story.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Einfache Strickmuster ganz groß: Handschuhe japanisch strickenJapanisches Design hat viele Facetten von klassisch edel bis poppig schrill.

The first major study of Cashmere and Paisley shawls in nineteenth-century British literature, this book shows how they came to represent both high fashion and the British Empire.

Draping for Apparel Design, Fourth Edition is the fully updated and revised edition of the seminal book pioneered by fashion education luminary Helen Joseph-Armstrong.

Draping for Apparel Design, Fourth Edition is the fully updated and revised edition of the seminal book pioneered by fashion education luminary Helen Joseph-Armstrong.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014In what was a golden age of British advertising, the notion of the 'peacock male' was a strong theme in fashion promotion, reflecting a new affluence and the emergence of stylish youth cultures.

The late twentieth century saw rapid growth in consumption and the expansion of retailing and services.

Raus aus der Routine: So werden Sie in 12 Monaten Strickprofi!

This book contains a lovely collection of vintage hand knitting patterns for the making of cardigans for men.

For South Asia, fashion and consumption have come to play an increasingly important role in the lives of young people and in the formation of youth cultures.

For fashion students who want to be both in the now and in the know!

** A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK **'Fascinating .

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Delve into the history behind the glamorous baths and spas of Europe to reveal the hidden past of alternative treatments.

This is a core text examining the multi-faceted world of professional design.

This book interrogates the hyper-visibility and stubborn endurance of the wedding spectacle across media and culture in the current climate.

Purple dye is extracted from the glands of the molluscs Hexaplex trunculus, Bolinus Brandaris and Stramonita Haemastoma which, through a chemical reaction of photosynthesis, produces hues ranging from dark red to bluish purple color.

In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'.

Surface Design Studio Guide is a complete, how-to guide to over 60 hands-on processes for fabric design from batik and silk screen to felting and smocking.

Much has been written about the transformation of China from being a clothing-manufacturing site to a fast-rate fashion consuming society.

On July 27th, 2015, Colin Cremin overcame a lifetime of fear and repression and came to work dressed as a woman called Ciara.

Cuteness is one of the most culturally pervasive aesthetics of the new millennium and its rapid social proliferation suggests that the affective responses it provokes find particular purchase in a contemporary era marked by intensive media saturation and spreading economic precarity.

This is an essential piece of kit for the aspiring fashion designer.

The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.

Aimed at fashion designers, Fabric for Fashion:The Complete Guide is unique in explaining the behaviour, properties and sustainability impacts of a wide range of natural and man-made fabrics.

As India celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of its independence, much praise was lavished on its emergence as a major player on the global stage.

It is impossible to have good designs without having accurate quality construction skills.

Motherhood, whether achieved through biological or other means, is not a rare experience; dressing oneself, even less so.

Universities are unlikely venues for grading bodies, beauty, poise, and style.

This jam-packed stitch bible begins with a guide to the best tools and equipment, detailed instructions on how to crochet, and information on reading stitch diagrams and understanding crochet abbreviationsIt offers a selection of the very best stitches, including a few new ones and some reinvented for a new generation.

This text is designed for use in a buying course with a heavy math emphasis.

3,000 years of fashion history in one stylish visual guideFashion is the definitive guide to the evolution of costume and style.

Shirts, Shifts and Sheets of Fine Linen explores how the jobs of the 'seamstress' evolved in scope, and status, between 1600-1900.

Drawing on the remembrances of elders who were born in the early 1900s and saw the last masked Yupik dances before missionary efforts forced their decline, Agayuliyararput is a collection of first-person accounts of the rich culture surrounding Yupik masks.

The Waistcoat Workbook: Historical, Modern, and Genre Drafting of Waistcoats for Men and Women 1837-Present Day provides comprehensive coverage of the design, construction, and role of waistcoats from the reign of Queen Victoria to the present day in the United Kingdom.

The moving, New York Times bestselling story of the women who sewed for their survival during the Holocaust.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

"e;This is a primer for future fashion game changers.