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The Story of Colour in Textiles by Susan Kay-Williams
SciFier: $59.62The colour and shade of dyed textiles were once as much an indicator of social class or position as the fabric itself and for centuries the recipes used by dyers were closely guarded secrets. The... -
Textile Design Theory in the Making by Dr Elaine Igoe (University of Portsmouth, UK)
SciFier: $60.78Textile design inhabits a liminal space spanning art, design and craft. This book explores how textile design bridges the decorative and the functional, and takes us from handcrafting to industrial... -
Fashion and Textile Design with Photoshop and Illustrator: Professional Creative Practice Robert Hume 9781350090125
SciFier: $94.62A step-by-step guide to two essential tools for textile and fashion designers. Designer and educator Robert Hume guides you from novice to expert through 20 carefully crafted projects. You'll... -
Japanese Fashion Designers: The Work and Influence of Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamotom, and Rei Kawakubo Professor Bonnie English (Late of Griffith University, Australia) 9781350088146
RRP: $60.78SciFier: $51.95Over the past 40 years, Japanese designers have led the way in aligning fashion with art and ideology, as well as addressing identity and social politics through dress. They have demonstrated that... -
How to Read a Suit by Lydia Edwards (Edith Cowan University, Australia)
RRP: $51.28SciFier: $42.16Fashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are not always easily identifiable. With overviews of... -
Sourcing Ideas for Textile Design by Josephine Steed (Robert Gordon University, UK)
RRP: $43.68SciFier: $39.54A visual goldmine for designers of original print, weave and embellishment, Sourcing Ideas for Textile Design will help you generate new ideas, develop them methodically and finally create... -
Japan beyond the Kimono: Innovation and Tradition in the Kyoto Textile Industry Jenny Hall 9781350095410
SciFier: $216.58In the ancient city of Kyoto, contemporary artisans and designers are using heritage techniques and traditional clothing aesthetics to reinvent wafuku (Japanese clothing, including kimono) for modern... -
Digital Architecture Beyond Computers: Fragments of a Cultural History of Computational Design Roberto Bottazzi (University of Westminster, UK) 9781474258135
SciFier: $186.18Digital Architecture Beyond Computers explores the deep history of digital architecture, tracing design concepts as far back as the Renaissance and connecting them with the latest software used by... -
The Present Prospects of Social Art History Prof. Robert Slifkin (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, USA) 9781501341564
SciFier: $195.68The Present Prospects of Social Art History represents a major reconsideration of how art historians analyze works of art and the role that historical factors, both those at the moment when the work... -
Spacewear by Barbara Brownie (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
SciFier: $68.38Today, we are living in the New Space Age, where mass commercial space travel is almost within our grasp. This otherworldly possibility has opened up new cultural images of space, both real and... -
Textiles, Community and Controversy: The Knitting Map Jools Gilson (University College Cork, Ireland) 9781350027527
SciFier: $49.46Taking 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... -
3D Printing Design by Francis Bitonti (Digital Arts and Humanities Research Center at Pratt Institute and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Architecture, USA)
SciFier: $167.18To work with the materials of tomorrow, design students across visual arts disciplines need to understand the cutting edge of today. Whether you're modelling in interiors, designing in fashion or... -
Designing Fashion's Future: Present Practice and Tactics for Sustainable Change Dr Alice Payne (RMIT, Melbourne, Australia) 9781350092457
SciFier: $157.68How do fashion designers design? How does design function within the industry? How can design practices open up sustainable pathways for fashion's future? Designing Fashion's Future responds to these... -
Picturing the Woman-Child: Fashion, Feminism and the Female Gaze Morna Laing (Parsons Paris, France) 9781350214385
SciFier: $65.80The childlike character of ideal femininity has long been critiqued by feminists, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Simone de Beauvoir. Yet, women continue to be represented as childlike in the western... -
Fashion Trends: Analysis and Forecasting Eundeok Kim (Florida State University, USA) 9781350099012
SciFier: $46.27In a fast-moving global industry, how can anyone know what the next trend will be? Fashion Trends: Analysis and Forecasting offers a clear pathway into the theory and practice of forecasting fashion,... -
Fashion Thinking by Fiona Dieffenbacher (Parsons School of Design, USA)
SciFier: $77.41Fashion's great innovations often spring from inspired designers developing unique concepts and challenging the status quo. But how do they do it? To find out, follow ten exceptional fashion design... -
The Psychopolitics of Fashion: Conflict and Courage Under the Current State of Fashion Otto Von Busch (Parsons School of Design, USA) 9781350242814
SciFier: $66.48What if fashion was a state? What kind of state would it be? Probably not a democracy. Otto von Busch sees fashion as a totalitarian state, with a population all too eager to enact the decrees of its... -
Fashion in European Art: Dress and Identity, Politics and the Body, 1775-1925 Justine De Young 9781788314480
SciFier: $57.55Fashion reveals not only who we are, but whom we aspire to be. From 1775 to 1925, artists in Europe were especially attuned to the gaps between appearance and reality, participating in and often... -
Pret-a-Porter, Paris and Women by Alexis Romano (Independent Scholar, USA)
SciFier: $167.18In the first critical history of French ready-made fashion, Alexis Romano examines an array of cultural sources, including surviving garments, fashion magazines, film, photography and interviews, to... -
Cult Media, Fandom, and Textiles by Dr Brigid Cherry
SciFier: $72.18This book is the first to explore handicrafting practiced by media fans, their online fan communities and the multiple meanings they create. Based on in-depth ethnographic research into fans on the... -
Fashion, Society, and the First World War: International Perspectives Maude Bass-Krueger (Leiden University, the Netherlands) 9781350119864
SciFier: $198.08This book is available open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. The historiography of the... -
The Fashion Forecasters: A Hidden History of Color and Trend Prediction Regina Lee Blaszczyk (University of Leeds, UK) 9781350017160
SciFier: $196.63The fashion business has been collecting and analyzing information about colors, fabrics, silhouettes, and styles since the 18th century - activities that have long been shrouded in mystery. The... -
Japan beyond the Kimono: Innovation and Tradition in the Kyoto Textile Industry Jenny Hall 9781350095427
SciFier: $71.23In the ancient city of Kyoto, contemporary artisans and designers are using heritage techniques and traditional clothing aesthetics to reinvent wafuku (Japanese clothing, including kimono) for modern... -
Fashioning the Victorians: A Critical Sourcebook Professor Rebecca Mitchell (University of Birmingham, UK) 9781350023406
SciFier: $65.06Offering a unique anthology of primary texts, this sourcebook opens a window on the writing that shaped and mirrored Victorian fashion, taking us from corsets to crinolines, dandies to decadent 'New... -
Fashion Criticism: An Anthology Professor Francesca Granata (Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA) 9781350058804
SciFier: $55.08This is the first anthology of fashion criticism, a growing field that has been too long overlooked. Fashion Criticism aims to redress the balance, claiming a place for writing on fashion alongside... -
Bond Girls: Body, Fashion and Gender Dr Monica Germana 9780857855329
SciFier: $67.13Since Ursula Andress's white-bikini debut in Dr No, 'Bond Girls' have been simultaneously celebrated as fashion icons and dismissed as 'eye-candy'. But the visual glamour of the women of James Bond... -
Sewing Techniques by Jennifer Prendergast
SciFier: $59.62Sewing techniques are sometimes overlooked in the design process but acquiring these skills can be transformational. The ability to turn a two-dimensional design into its three-dimensional... -
The Fashion Designer's Sketchbook by Sharon Rothman (The Fashion Institute of Technology, USA)
SciFier: $77.41The Fashion Designer's Sketchbook is a must-have resource for both fashion students and practising designers who wish to learn new ways of generating design ideas in order to create successful... -
Stitching the Self: Identity and the Needle Arts Johanna Amos (Queen's University, Ontario, Canada) 9781350242418
SciFier: $66.48The needle arts are traditionally associated with the decorative, domestic, and feminine. Stitching the Self sets out to expand this narrow view, demonstrating how needlework has emerged as an art... -
Fashion Sewing: Advanced Techniques by Connie Amaden-Crawford (Fashion Patterns by Coni, USA)
RRP: $53.18SciFier: $48.47Fashion Sewing: Advanced Techniques guides the reader through a range of intermediate and advanced skills, such as tailoring, sewing with knits, inserting linings and facings and how to sew a wide... -
Fashion, Performance, and Performativity by Andrea Kollnitz (Stockholm University, Sweden)
SciFier: $60.78In 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... -
Danger in the Path of Chic by Lucy Moyse Ferreira (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK)
SciFier: $60.78During 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... -
Sustainable Fashion, Migrants, Embroidery by Dr Alessandra Lopez y Royo (SOAS University of London, UK)
SciFier: $194.05Sustainable Fashion, Migrants, Embroidery: Ateliers of 'Social Integration' tells of community-led 'solidarity ateliers' engaged in sewing and embroidery activities which, in the Global North and... -
New Fashion Designers' Sketchbooks by Zarida Zaman
RRP: $43.68SciFier: $37.30An invaluable resource for fashion students, teachers and designers, this book looks at research sketchbooks and the role they play in the research and design process. Demonstrating how ideas are... -
The Hidden History of the Smock Frock Alison Toplis (University of Wolverhampton, UK) 9781350126114
SciFier: $176.68Winner of the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2022 Traditionally associated with rural ways of life in England, often hand-crafted and held up as one of the only items of... -
Hair by Susan J. Vincent (Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York, UK)
RRP: $53.18SciFier: $43.68Bobs, beards, blondes and beyond, Hair takes us on a lavishly illustrated journey into the world of this remarkable substance and our complicated and fascinating relationship with it. Taking the... -
Picturing the Woman-Child: Fashion, Feminism and the Female Gaze Morna Laing (Parsons Paris, France) 9781350059580
SciFier: $196.63The childlike character of ideal femininity has long been critiqued by feminists, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Simone de Beauvoir. Yet, women continue to be represented as childlike in the western... -
Fashioning Professionals by Leah Armstrong (University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria)
SciFier: $70.28From artist to curator, couturier to fashion blogger, 'creative' professional identities can be viewed as social practices, enacted, performed and negotiated through the media, the public, and... -
Basics Fashion Design 09: Designing Accessories by John Lau (London College of Fashion)
SciFier: $59.62Long since regarded as an inessential object that simply adds to the beauty, convenience or effectiveness of an outfit, accessories are now considered key items in a fashion collection and as... -
Women in Wartime: Dress Studies from Picture Post 1938-1945 Geraldine Howell (University of Westminster, UK) 9781350000926
SciFier: $196.63This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.Picture Post magazine was made famous by its pioneering photojournalism, which vividly...