Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance

by Matilda McQuaid, Susan Brown, Philip Beesley

Stronger, faster, lighter, safer, smarterthese are the textiles of tomorrow. From the carbon-fiber composite bicycle frame to the cardiac constraint sock and the Mars Pathfinder landing airbags, material innovations surround us. Our landscape, our buildings, our vehicles, our clothes, and our bodies all benefit from these highly engineered performance textiles. Featuring examples of fully realized products from all classes of technical textilesarchitectural, product design, apparel, medicine, transportation, aerospace, industry, and the environment Extreme Textiles highlights successful collaborations between design, industry, and science. Large, full-color illustrations and essays by some of today's most influential designers and scientists trace the extraordinary developments made in textiles over the last twenty years and suggest what is to come. Tradition, technology, beauty, and strength are joined together in the materials and products presented in this volume. Whether exploring space, running a marathon, or fashioning the latest trend, we will be inspired by these extreme textiles every day. Extreme Textiles accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum beginning in April 2005.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2005

Reviews

[Ghd · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is rich of knowledge that benefets all textiles engineers and all whom interested in textiles technoloy.
It has about 5 chapters each explains what are high performance fibres that suit a certain property that is required for a certain end use for example: lighter chapter explains the most useful high performance fibers that has the property of lightness to be used in portable architecture for instance, and so on in the rest of the chapters which are stronger,faster, safer and smarter.