Author: Fashionary International LimitedPublisher:
ISBN: 9789887711094
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Textile Directory
Author: Fashionary International LimitedPublisher:
ISBN: 9789887711094
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Industrial Digest
Author: Fabric
Author: Victoria FinlayPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639361642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
A magnificent work of original research that unravels history through textiles and cloth—how we make it, use it, and what it means to us. How is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest? Why is a famous fabric pattern from India best known by the name of a Scottish town? How is a Chinese dragon robe a diagram of the whole universe? What is the difference between how the Greek Fates and the Viking Norns used threads to tell our destiny? In Fabric, bestselling author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe, weaving stories of our relationship with cloth and asking how and why people through the ages have made it, worn it, invented it, and made symbols out of it. And sometimes why they have fought for it. She beats the inner bark of trees into cloth in Papua New Guinea, fails to handspin cotton in Guatemala, visits tweed weavers at their homes in Harris, and has lessons in patchwork-making in Gee's Bend, Alabama - where in the 1930s, deprived of almost everything they owned, a community of women turned quilting into an art form. She began her research just after the deaths of both her parents —and entwined in the threads she found her personal story too. Fabric is not just a material history of our world, but Finlay's own journey through grief and recovery.
Textile Technology Digest
Author: Clarence House
Author: Kazumi YoshidaPublisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN: 9780847835669
Category : Textile design
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This lavish book presents the distinguished fabrics of Clarence House, one of the world's most renowned textile houses, with inspiring applications for interiors. For the past fifty years Clarence House, founded by Robin Roberts in 1961, has been infusing the textile industry with luxurious and inventive fabrics. From Mark Hampton to Robert Couturier to Charlotte Moss, interior designers have long relied on the firm's superb fabrics to add just the right note to their decorating schemes. This book presents some of the most imaginative textiles available today and provides an array of inspirational fabric applications and ingenious choices for upholstering furniture, creating dreamy window treatments, and adding finishing touches such as tassels and other trims. The heart of the book, however, illuminates Kazumi Yoshida's creative process and his ideas for use of fabrics in the home. Whether he is interpreting historical documents or drawing in the studio he is always concocting modernist abstractions, contemporary prints, or new interpretations of eighteenth-century patterns."--Publisher's website.
Advisory Opinion Digests
Author: United States. Federal Trade CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trade regulation
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
New Complete Guide to Sewing
Author: Publisher: Readers Digest
ISBN: 0762104201
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Provides general instructions for fitting, constructing, tailoring, and finishing women's, men's, and children's clothing and for making curtains and bedcoverings.
Industrial Digest and Commodities & Finance
Author: The Literary Digest
Author: Edward Jewitt WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
Vitamin T: Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art
Author: Phaidon EditorsPublisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714876610
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A global survey of more than 100 artists, chosen by art-world professionals for their work with threads, stitching, and textiles Celebrating tapestry, embroidery, stitching, textiles, knitting, and knotting as used by visual artists worldwide, Vitamin T is the latest in the celebrated series in which leading curators, critics, and art professionals nominate living artists for inclusion. As boundaries between art and craft have blurred, artists have increasingly embraced these materials and methods, with the resulting works being coveted by collectors and exhibited in museums worldwide. Vitamin T is a vibrant and incredibly timely survey – the first of its kind.