Fashion and textile design

This volume contains a classic guide to hand making lingerie, dealing with the different stitches, types of embroidery, fastenings, and more.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to making women's suits.

This is a classic guide to making a variety of different types of clothing for babies and young children.

This vintage book provides a detailed history and overview of the quilting industry, exploring its routes, developments, popularity, and revival.

This vintage book contains a short guide to Persian embroidery published by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

A timeless guide dedicated to the art of tailoring women's clothing, this accessible manual is enriched with helpful illustrations.

Daphne Selfe has been photographed by Mario Testino, Nick Knight and David Bailey.

What is fashion?

A sewing expert and marathon runner offers sewing patterns and blocks, as well as step-by-step instructions to help you create your own amazing activewear.

Cutting-Edge Fashion Illustration is the go-to resource and inspiration if you're a budding fashion designer, fashion illustrator or just simply want to learn more illustration techniques.

Cutting-Edge Fashion Illustration is the go-to resource and inspiration if you're a budding fashion designer, fashion illustrator or just simply want to learn more illustration techniques.

Examining how dress evolved over the long nineteenth century, between the French Revolution and the First World War, Pam Inder explores the history behind how women's clothing was manufactured and worn.

In the 1850s a craze swept through the wardrobes of the women of British and American society.

'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?

This book is about people who worked in the rag trade in the nineteenth century - dressmakers and milliners, tailors, two shoemakers, a framework knitter, a family of corset manufacturers and a lace maker.

Packed full of golden rules from one of Britain's most stylish women, Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me is a woman's companion for life.

For girls who care about global warming, and next season's hot looks, Green is the New Black is a must-have accessory.

If you just can't decide what to wear, this enlightening guide will lead you through the diverse and sometimes contradictory aspects of fashion in a series of lively, entertaining and thoughtful essays from prominent philosophers and writers.

If you just can't decide what to wear, this enlightening guide will lead you through the diverse and sometimes contradictory aspects of fashion in a series of lively, entertaining and thoughtful essays from prominent philosophers and writers.

In clear and easy-to-follow steps, this highly effective textbook sets out everything that students need to know to produce competent and visually exciting illustrations.

Everyone in the fashion business needs to develop an essential survival skill: how to interpret the intelligence provided by the fashion forecasting industry, to anticipate and respond to emerging trends.

Metric Pattern Cutting for Women s Wear, first published in 1975, provides a straightforward introductory book for students beginning courses in flat pattern cutting.

Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture investigates the social symbolism and cultural poetics of dress in the ancient Roman world in the period from 200 BCE-400 CE.

Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture investigates the social symbolism and cultural poetics of dress in the ancient Roman world in the period from 200 BCE-400 CE.

In the early modern period, the theatrical stage offered one of the most popular forms of entertainment and aesthetic pleasure.

How does a country dress itself?

AN EMPOWERING, NO-NONSENSE GUIDE TO LIVING THE MISS J WAYFULLY AND FABULOUSLY!

So you probably won't be attending your own movie premiere or collecting a Grammy Award this year.

Every occasion calls out for something extra, whether it's flowers you set on the table, foods to honor a special gathering, or the selection of music.

Clod-kickin' style for little cowboy feet!

Meet 20 beautiful, creative French women who live with passion; work every day; and love to take care ot their homes and families.

Glamorous eccentrics are irresistible people.

The dazzling story of Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent: of two men without equal, their meteoric rise and their bitter rivalry In 1950s Paris, Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld were friends, the rising stars of the fashion world.

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'An eye-opening account of the controversial role this gorgeous, coveted pigment has played through the millennia' - Elle

'[McKinley's] discoveries resonate, and her unique experiences provide a vivid snapshot of the cultures she encountered in Africa' - Washington Post
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Indigo is the rich, electrifying history of a precious dye: its relationship to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, its profound influence on fashion, and its spiritual significance - all very much alive today.

Packed with breathtaking photographs, this tribute to AlexanderMcQueen (1969-2010) celebrates the incredible creations of an iconic, imaginative, and inspirational fashion designerwhose work turned heads and hearts all over the world.

This book highlights the functions and models of biological surfaces with unique wettability and elucidates the methods to realize bioinspired surfaces.

Discover the tales behind the ties in Stephen Fry's witty companion to our most distinguished accessory'A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life' Oscar Wilde'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?

Insect Sampling in Forest Ecosystems highlights the problems faced by entomologists working in forest ecosystems.

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

A Gentleman Gets Dressed Up is not a book about styleit is a book about the rulesrules that will allow any man to feel more comfortable in the choices he makes about what he wears.

How honeybees make collective decisions-and what we can learn from this amazing democratic processHoneybees make decisions collectively-and democratically.

A compelling look at the influence of ancient Egypt on modern fashion, by a dress, textile, and decorative arts historian-includes illustrations.

A compelling look at the influence of ancient Egypt on modern fashion, by a dress, textile, and decorative arts historian-includes illustrations.

Learn how to create wonderful fashion illustrations with this inspiring and practical workbook, written by leading fashion illustrator Robyn Neild.

A delightfully illustrated history of women's wear in Victorian England, with decade-by-decade details of the styles-and the lifestyles they represented.

A delightfully illustrated history of women's wear in Victorian England, with decade-by-decade details of the styles-and the lifestyles they represented.