Fabrics
Fabrics

Author: Marypaul Yates

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2002-04-30

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780393730623

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Fabrics provides designers with the information needed to make their fabric specifications easy, informed, and appropriate to the job at hand, considering aesthetics, performance, application, and green design. This thorough handbook by a textile professional describes and illustrates fibers and yarns, fabric structures, fabric design, dye and printing processes, finishes and treatments, styles and applications of cloth for furniture, window-, wall-, and floor coverings. Also covered are testing and flaws; the fabric industry, and professional practice.

Fabrics A-to-Z
Fabrics A-to-Z

Author: Dana Willard

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Published: 2012-04-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781584799566

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"STC Craft/A Melanie Falick Book"--P. [4] of cover.

The Mood Guide to Fabric and Fashion
The Mood Guide to Fabric and Fashion

Author: Mood Designer Fabrics

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 161312872X

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“Designers, we’re going to Mood!” More than 10 years ago, Tim Gunn and Project Runway introduced millions of viewers to New York’s ultimate fabric mecca, Mood Fabrics. Now, the experts behind this fabric power- house bring their fabric and fashion know-how—plus their behind-the-scenes stories—to the sewing public. The Mood Guide to Fabric and Fashion is the ultimate guide for home-sewers, fashion students, aspiring designers, and Project Runway fans who want to learn everything they need to know to choose and use quality fabric. Drawing upon the expertise of the Mood staff, the book teaches readers the fundamentals—from where fabric is produced to the ins and outs of its construction—and features a fabric-by-fabric guide to cottons and other plant fibers, wools, silks, knits, and other specialty fabrics.

Fabric Savvy
Fabric Savvy

Author: Sandra Betzina

Publisher: Taunton

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781561585731

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The fabric-lover's guide to cloth offers preshrinking instructions and advice on layout, marking, interfacing, and hemming.

The Fabric of Civilization
The Fabric of Civilization

Author: Virginia Postrel

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2020-11-10

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1541617614

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From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, explore the global history of textiles and the world they weave together in this enthralling and educational guide. The story of humanity is the story of textiles -- as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel synthesizes groundbreaking research from archaeology, economics, and science to reveal a surprising history. From Minoans exporting wool colored with precious purple dye to Egypt, to Romans arrayed in costly Chinese silk, the cloth trade paved the crossroads of the ancient world. Textiles funded the Renaissance and the Mughal Empire; they gave us banks and bookkeeping, Michelangelo's David and the Taj Mahal. The cloth business spread the alphabet and arithmetic, propelled chemical research, and taught people to think in binary code. Assiduously researched and deftly narrated, The Fabric of Civilization tells the story of the world's most influential commodity.

Fabulous Fabric
Fabulous Fabric

Author: Laura Scott

Publisher: DRG Wholesale

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781592170173

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Beautiful home decor items, made with great fabrics, that don't require threading a sewing machine! The chapters go room by room through your home. Tackle redoing just one room at a time, but before you begin browse through the entire book. Ideas in one chapter may suit a room covered in a different chapter.

Fabric for Fashion: The Complete Guide
Fabric for Fashion: The Complete Guide

Author: Amanda Johnston

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Published: 2014-02-03

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1780675135

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Fabric for Fashion: The Complete Guide is the only book specifically for fashion designers to explain the behaviour and properties of different fabrics. Fashion design is largely determined by how the fabrics work, move, feel and look. The most successful fashion designers are those who understand their materials, who match design skill with technical knowledge. This book bridges that gap by providing a mix of practical information and industry vocabulary, visually examining generic fabric types, discussing the characteristics of fabrics and showing how to exploit materials to push the boundaries of design. With stunning colour photographs that show how fashion designers, both past and present, have worked with fabrics, the book’s prime objective is to stimulate creative exploration of the relationship of fabrics to fashion.

Smart Fibres, Fabrics and Clothing
Smart Fibres, Fabrics and Clothing

Author: Xiaoming Tao

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2001-10-04

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1855737604

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This important book provides a guide to the fundamentals and latest developments in smart technology for textiles and clothing. The contributors represent a distinguished international panel of experts and the book covers many aspects of cutting edge research and development.Smart fibres, fabrics and clothing starts with a review of the background to smart technology and goes on to cover a wide range of the material science and fibre science aspects of the technology including: Electrically active polymeric materials and the applications of nonionic polymer gel and elastomers for artificial muscles; Thermally sensitive fibres and fabrics; Cross-linked polyol fibrous substrates stimuli-responsive interpenetrating polymer network hydrogel; Permeation control through stimuli-responsive polymer membranes; optical fibre sensors, hollow fibre membranes for gas separation; integrating fibre-formed components into textile structures; Wearable electronic and photonic technologies; Adaptive and responsive textile structures (ARTS); Biomedical applications including the applications of scaffolds in tissue engineeringIt is essential reading for academics in textile and materials science departments, researchers, designers and engineers in the textiles and clothing product design field. Product managers and senior executives within textile and clothing manufacturing will also find the latest insights into technological developments in the field valuable and fascinating.