Based on years of study of a huge range of fabrics produced by hand or by strictly limited mechanization, its essential strength is its universality. In this monumental work, the structures and the descriptive terms applied to them are clearly presented according to their logical relationships to each other, moving from the simplest to the most complex. The book is divided into three parts: the raw materials of fabric structures (filaments and fabric elements); the fabric structure themselves, whether felted or made from interworked yarns; and structures such as stitches or appliqué.

Die Digitalisierung der Welt scheint einen Abgleich mit der Hand zu benötigen. Allerorten wird gehäkelt, gestickt, gestrickt und gewebt. Die Grenzlinie zwischen Kunst und Kunsthandwerk scheint zu verwischen. Bereits 1878 beschrieb Gottfried Semper das Textile als Urform der Künste. Wiener Werkstätte und Bauhaus durchbrachen die Schranken, ein entscheidender Impuls für die Meister der Moderne. Faden, Gewebe, Netz und Muster sind gleichzeitig Grundlage, Ergebnis und Ideengeber, greifen auf Malerei, Skulptur, Installations- und Medienkunst über...

The possibilities for three-dimensional manipulation of fabric – gathering, pleating, tucking, shirring, and quilting woven materials – are seemingly endless. To describe them all would be to describe the entire history of sewing....

Draping—the art of using calico to design directly on a dress form—is an essential skill for fashion students. Starting with the basics of preparing the dress form and fabric, the book advances through pinning, trimming and clipping, and creating shape using darts and tucks, to adding volume using pleats and gathers, and handling complex curves. Advanced skills include how to use support elements and how to handle bias draping...

This is truly an essential resource for all sewists! Set to be the new The Art of Manipulating Fabric, Ruth Singer offers a modern interpretation of fabric manipulation in this book, with hundreds of full colour diagrams. Discover and explore 150 creative sewing techniques including pleating, folding, gathering, smocking, quilting, trapunto and applique. Ruth explains her innovative variations of these traditional fabric manipulation techniques and offers inspirational project ideas demonstrating practical applications to create accessories and home decor. Photographs and illustrations are included to support the step-by-step instruction for each technique and all of the techniques can be done by hand or with a domestic sewing machine without the need for specialist equipment.

This book encompasses not only the environmental issues presented by a wasteful and fast-moving fashion cycle, but also the social impact of the global fashion industry, which employs up to 40 million people worldwide in manufacturing and agriculture. Positive in outlook, the book promotes an understanding of the complex issues surrounding modern clothing production, use and disposal, while celebrating the inherent value of fashion and the creative opportunity that the growing trend towards sustainability offers...

Fashion by Design explores the elements and principles of design as they relate to fashion. By evaluating the best examples from early through contemporary fashion design, students will develop the eye of the fashion designer in order to identify and understand how to manipulate the elements and principles of design. The objective is for design students to use these guidelines not to simply develop an appreciation of aesthetics but to execute an aesthetically pleasing garment design. Each chapter includes hands-on projects with step-by-step instructions related to the element or principle discussed in that chapter. The theory in the book originates from the Bauhaus school of art, while also drawing from sources on aesthetics in the field of clothing and textiles.

Fashion Now is the first comprehensive anthology of contemporary fashion. Compiled by the style-savvy staff of the seminal monthly i-D, Fashion Now profiles the work of the 150 most important designers around the globe, focusing on not only the biggest names but also the most exciting up-and-coming talent...

The details make the difference. Whether it's the traditional details—cuffs, pockets, darts, etc.—or the myriad alternative details that fashion designers are using today, these eye-catching, trend-setting elements are what make their designs stand out on the runway and on the street...

Spätantike und frühislamische, so genannte koptische Textilien - im späten 19. Jahrhundert in Ägypten in Nekropolen und anderen Ausgrabungen entdeckt - sind meist aus Leinen und Wolle gewebt. Die Behänge, Decken, Kissen, Tuniken, Manteltücher und Accessoires entstanden zwischen dem 3. und 8. Jahrhundert und geben einen lebendigen Eindruck von der vielfältigen Textilproduktion der Zeit. Zum ersten Mal überhaupt wurde die neue Fundgattung 1883 im heutigen MAK in Wien mit einem Katalog ihrer Entdecker - des Orientalisten Josef von Karabacek und des Kunsthändlers Theodor Graf - präsentiert. Von Graf erwarb das MAK im selben Jahr den Grundstock seiner Sammlung. Die bedeutende Kollektion koptischer Textilien des MAK umfasst heute mehr als 1000 Objekte, von denen 114 ausgewählte Glanzstücke in diesem Band einen repräsentativen Überblick vermitteln. Sie werden eingehend beschrieben, wissenschaftlich eingeordnet und zum Teil auch webtechnisch analysiert. Ausstellung: MAK, Wien 7.12.2005-5.6.2006

"Comprehensive study of 282 examples permits classification, description, and interpretation of mummification techniques and of details of health, diet, technology, settlement, and society between 5000 and 1700 BC. Argues that mummification was invented in Arica-Camerones region to insure continuity of life in the context of environmental uncertain.