Costume Design

The Texture of Change examines historical change across a broad region of western Africa-from Saint Louis, Senegal, to Freetown, Sierra Leone-through the development of textile commerce, consumption, and dress. Indigo-dyed and printed cotton, wool,...

A comprehensive how-to reference that teaches dry textile surface design techniques for making custom cloth, including applique, embroidery, layering, and more. Learn surface design for textiles, to create rich and personally expressive fabric surfaces...

Sneakers Art includes realized customization examples of sneakers and easy to follow step-by-step tutorials. This book is a great way to get started creating your own custom sneakers. Up your creative game as you learn quick and easy ways to turn a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300259834Author Laird Borrelli-PerssonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University PressWeight(grams)...

Learn how to choose the right type of textile for your residential and commercial interior design. This book includes important information about fiber and fabrics for household and institutional textiles, and commercial and residential textiles. It also...

Fashion in Altermodern China examines key features of women's fashion within the cultural and political context of contemporary China. While global brands and styles heavily influence Chinese consumer trends, the Chinese fashion 'system' is formed of its...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013791130Author Iris BrookeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Construction Knitting uses clear visual aids to demonstrate modular exercises for practical and theoretical applications of hand, machine and digital knitting methods. While the idea of using geometric shapes for knitting is not new, Nikki Gabriel's...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014401618Author Iris BrookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

The nude figure defines the best way to learn the fundamentals of drawing, yet the end goal of most art presents clothed figures, be it animation, video games, film, or fine art. This sixth book in the 'FORCE' series instructs artists on how to...

All over the world, people get dressed, mostly for the same reasons. Why, then, do we look so different from each other? The answers lie in the constellations of factors that contribute to the human condition, from climate to conformity, gender...

Beginning with Alexander McQueen's infamous attempt to live stream his 2009 Plato's Atlantis collection on SHOWStudio, this book traces how digital and social media have disrupted social structures within the field of fashion, and transformed the way it...

Skin Crafts discusses multiple artists from global contexts who employ craft materials in works that address historical and contemporary violence. These artists are deliberately embracing the fragility of textiles and ceramics to evoke the vulnerability...

During the interwar years, a proliferation of violence encroached upon the glossy, idealistic world of fashion: from the curiously common appearance of dismembered heads in fashion illustration, to seemingly torturous techniques and devices advertised by...

In the first comprehensive study of the interactions between fashion, performance and performativity, a group of international experts explore fashion as the ideal 'complex space' - or, in other words, the ideal space where performance and performativity...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300237252Author Ann CoxonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University Press

Fascination with Fiber focuses on the forces that have kept the craft of handweaving alive in Michigan and throughout the country: individuals, organizations, and communities enlivened through necessity, opportunity, and creativity. For decades, Michigan...

In 1976 Dutch textile specialist Rens Heringa first visited Kerek in rural East Java and discovered a region where-unlike the rest of Java-the full range of textiles with woven patterning, as well as the only batik still made on handwoven cotton cloth,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780642334275Author Lucie FolanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint National Library of AustraliaPublisher National Library of Australia

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956534019Author Keren ProtheroeFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Museum of Domestic Design & ArchitecturePublisher Museum of Domestic Design &...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956409515Author Amelia GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Amelia's HousePublisher Amelia's House

Featuring easy-to-follow instructions on all the main basic and intermediate skills required to sew garments from a pattern, Fashion Sewing: Introductory Techniques is an excellent resource for fashion design students who want to improve their sewing...

Recycling is one of the hottest new trends in embroidery, and this is the first book to cover it. Embroiderers recycle for many different reasons: to conserve old pieces of ephemera for the future, to give their work a personal touch, to convey meaning,...

The interrelationship between fashion and celebrity is now a salient and pervasive feature of the media world. This accessible text presents the first in-depth study of the phenomenon, assessing the degree to which celebrity culture has reshaped the...

If the trade papers report that gloves are making a comeback, should production start manufacturing them? How would someone judge and react to a woman walking down the street in a purple wig and spandex body suit? What is accurate and inaccurate to...

Taking a major textile artwork, The Knitting Map, as a central case study, this book interrogates the social, philosophical and critical issues surrounding contemporary textile art today. It explores gestures of community and controversy manifest in...

For introductory courses in Textiles, courses in Fashion Design/Production, Fashion Merchandising, Visual Merchandising, Interior Design, and Costume Studies. Fabric Reference is a guide for anyone who needs accessible information on today's fabrics-how...

This book is about taking an image- a drawing, painting, digital photograph, computer design or photocopy- and, using simple methods, turning it into a piece of textile art. The author takes you through a variety of techniques for creating the image,...

There is increasing interest in the area of protective vests, either for protection against bullets or protection from the most realistic threats within domestic frontline operations: edged weapon, knives, and medical needles. This volume addresses that...

The development of digital textile printing at the end of the twentieth century has had a profound effect on the design, creation, use and understanding of textiles. This new technology - combined with advances in fabric and dye chemistry - has made it...

Textiles and clothing are interwoven with Islamic culture. In Islamicate Textiles, readers are taken on a journey from Central Asia to Tanzania to uncover the central roles that textiles play within Muslim-majority communities. This thematically...

Skin Crafts discusses multiple artists from global contexts who employ craft materials in works that address historical and contemporary violence. These artists are deliberately embracing the fragility of textiles and ceramics to evoke the vulnerability...

This is the Spanish-language edition of The Unbroken Thread. Housed in the former sixteenth-century convent of Santo Domingo Church-now the Regional Museum of Oaxaca, Mexico-is an important collection of textiles representing the area's indigenous...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788477651567Author Axel MadsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint CircePublisher Circe

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639363902Author Victoria FinlayFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 37mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692768273Author Marguerita MergentimeFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint BrooklynPublisher Brooklyn

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438011554Author Gail BaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint SourcebooksPublisher Sourcebooks

Since the democratisation of the clothing industry in the early 19th century, buyers have become increasingly disconnected from the creative and human aspects of the production of clothing. Arguably clothing is now valued less for its aesthetic qualities...

The Conservation of Tapestries and Embroideries represents the work of many conservators, conservation scientists, and curators from museums and tapestry and embroidery conservation workshops in western Europe and the United States. They were gathered...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995123069Author Jennifer GillamFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University PressWeight(grams) 428gDimensions(mm)...