Textiles and Fashion: Exploring printed textiles, knitwear, embroidery, menswear and womenswear

Basics Fashion Design #2

by Jenny Udale

Textiles and Fashion explores the integration of textile design with fashion. It begins with a brief history of textiles, showing the links with technical innovation and social developments. It then focuses on the processes of textile design, including the ethical and sustainable issues around textiles today. The book also provides practical information on fibre production, dyeing and finishing techniques. Various surface treatments are explored, as well as the way in which colour and trend influences fashion and textiles.

Through case studies and interviews, fashion and textile designers discuss their production processes and how they use textiles in their work. New to the second edition are exercises to help students to explore and further their knowledge of textiles and fashion.

Genres: Fashion, Nonfiction, Fashion Design, Design, Crafts, Sewing

200 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 2008

Reviews

[Kay-Leigh]

Good introduction to the fashion and textile design industry.

[Ashlie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent book. If you are interested in fashion design - especially textiles, you will love reading this. The book focuses on the European fashion industry more than it does the craft industry. The designers featured all work independently for the fashion industry, or work for designers who produce couture, and RTW.

There are tons of great pictures, interviews, and resources for design students, and the book is very user friendly and well written. This is only one book in the Basics Fashion Design series. I have read other books from this series, and they are all great.

Highly recommended.

[Jelantik · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting lecture to understand the structure and of textile to be implemented in fashion.

[Ralph Zoontjens · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well-designed book that contains a lot of basic information useful in the field of fashion design.