Featuring dazzlingly varied cloths, this book presents a visual record of one of the great stories of Asian design history: the trade in Indian textiles to Southeast and East Asia. It also examines the history of the cloth-for-spices trade, focusing on the 17th and 18th centuries when the thousand-year-old trade was at is peak.
Presents a comprehensive survey of the handmade textiles of the whole of the South Asian subcontinent. This book examines the histories of textiles traditions throughout the whole area, as well as analysing the techniques of dyeing, weaving and embroidering.
Written especially for those with limited art training and drawing skills, this is a book on designing for textiles. It takes a range of techniques - that don't include drawing - for design development, such as using computers (quite simple programs), digital cameras and images, photocopiers, tracing paper and copyright-free design books.
Textile artists have always used found objects, both for decoration and to imbue their work with meaning, and recently the practice has become even more popular. Cas Holmes is renowned for her use of 'the found', and her many-layered, atmospheric pieces have been shown around the world.
Presents an overview of the core textiles techniques: applique; printing onto fabric; stencilling; fabric painting; dyeing; quilting and patchwork; batik; embroidery (and machine); felt-making; weaving; silk painting; fusing and bonding fabric; and, mark-making. This title is suitable for fashion and textile students.
Produced from plants by a process akin to alchemy, indigo has a unique chemistry that renders it compatible with various types of natural fibre. This book covers various aspects of this subject: historical, agricultural, and botanical chemical and technological; commercial and economic; and, more.
Part of the popular "500 Series" that helps reveal felt's full potential, this title covers topics ranging from garments to carpets to vessels, from home decor to installations. It honours the work of traditional fibre artists side-by-side with avant-garde designers and a broad range of styles, colours and forms.
From nomads' tents to poodle skirts, from car parts to Christmas tree ornaments, felt is one of the world's oldest and most understated textiles. Felt has developed simultaneously in multiple cultures, and often its origins are lost. This book covers the history and development of this fabric.
'Toiles de Jouy' has become the catch-all term for the delightful printed cottons preferred by the aristocratic elite in eighteenth and nineteenth-century France. This title introduces the design, dyeing, and printing processes that created these textiles, and their role in interior decoration and clothing.
From medical implants to spacesuits, advanced textiles have the potential to transform human habitats and transportation, protect the environment and support personal health and well-being. This book explores and celebrates technological advances in fibres and fabrics, demonstrating their beauty and ingenuity.
South Asian textiles have shaped British fashion and dress for centuries, from the fashionable chintzes of the 17th and 18th centuries, through the silk and paisley Boteh patterns of the nineteenth century, to the orientalism of 1960s bohemian fashion. This title looks at the importance of South Asian textiles to British culture and fashion.
Examines the relationships between textiles, sexual anatomy, and sexual practices. This book argues that textiles have very particular relationship with the body's 'zones of sexual intimacy' and its operation as 'gendered in culture'. It covers topics such as: furry fetishes, gay's men's handkerchiefs, virginal sheets, and bifurcated bloomers.
This is an exploration of the history, technology and lore of fabrics. Chapters are devoted to individual fabrics - wool, cotton, silk; decorative uses, such as upholstery; and contemporary clothing designers and decorators. This book covers its subject from ancient times to the present day.
Offers students a basic grounding in the three main pathways of textile design: printed, woven and mixed media textile design, including embroidered and manipulated materials discussing both traditional and contemporary developments in design and production.
Every winter as the mercury plummets to a new low each day in northern India, the demand for Rajasthani quilts - popularly known as the Jaipur Razai - is on the rise. Designing of quilts in India is a unique combination of experience, traditional values and interests. This book deals with this topic.
Examines the relationships between textiles, sexual anatomy, and sexual practices. This work argues that textiles have very particular relationship with the body's zones of sexual intimacy and its operation as 'gendered in culture'. It includes chapters looking at furry fetishes; gay's men's handkerchiefs; virginal sheets, and bifurcated bloomers.
A comprehensive survey of textile art and production worldwide, from prehistory to the present day. Using line drawings and close-up colour details from actual textiles, it shows how people from many different traditions have made and decorated cloth through the centuries.
A key reference for all textile designers, this is a survey of the colourful patterned fabrics used for clothing and interior decoration over the past 200 years. There are five sections: floral; geometric; conversational; ethnic; and art movements and period styles.
Focuses on 'String', literally and metaphorically, for the emotions it evokes and the ideas it sets in motion. This title includes topics such as 'The String in Art and Science: Rediscovering the Material Mind', 'Thread of Attachment', 'The Fiber Game', 'String Theory', and 'Playing with Haddon's String Figures'.
Brings together research in textiles in an academic forum. Representing a set of critical practices, this book provides a platform for points of departure between art and craft; gender and identity; cloth, body and architecture; labour and technology; techno-design and practice - all situated within the contexts of material and visual culture.
Representing a wide-ranging set of critical practices, this title aims to provide a platform for points of departure between art and craft; gender and identity; cloth, body and architecture; labour and technology; and, techno-design and practice - all situated within the broader contexts of material and visual culture.
Textile is an international and peer-reviewed journal that brings together research in textile studies in an innovative and distinctive academic forum. It provides a platform for points of departure between art and craft; cloth, body and architecture - all situated within the context of material and visual culture.
Textile is an international and peer-reviewed journal that brings together research in textile studies in an innovative and distinctive academic forum. It provides a platform for points of departure between art and craft; cloth, body and architecture -- all situated within the context of material and visual culture.
This book celebrates India's spectacular textile art. It takes the reader on a visual odyssey spanning 500 years, tracing the images created on cloth for India's magnificent courts and temples, as well as for more distant but not less discerning patrons in Europe and Asia.
Portable and practical, tough and colourful, Bedouin textiles played a vital and functional part in the life of the Arab nomads. This title describes the weaving techniques of the Bedouin in the context of their transitional mode of life, as they adapt from their centuries-old nomadic existence to being both semi- and fully settled.
Provides a review of the practice, ethics and materials used in textile conservation. Concentrating on decorative art objects from the major cultures, this book gives instruction and case histories. It provides a basis from which to develop skills, taking into account the needs of the object, its characteristics of appearance and its structure.
This work compliments "Embroideries and Patterns of Nineteenth Century Vienna", Serena's first publication concerning the Nowotny Collection. Like its counterpart, Animal Embroideries and Patterns surveys samplers, motifs and decorative patterns, but focuses solely on animal patterns.
An overview of the compositional principles of embroidery, it contains more than 500 photographs. It encourages readers to be inspired by nature and is intended for practising embroiderers, textile designers and students. It is a sourcebook for those working with or interested in textile design.
Textiles have been made and used by every culture throughout history. However diverse - whether an Egyptian mummy wrapping, a Turkish carpet, Italian velvet, American quilt, or a Scottish kilt - all textiles have basic elements in common. This guide deals with the fundamental terms, materials, and techniques used to create textiles.
A behind-the-scenes look at the textile industry to reveal what various jobs involve, what influences decision makers and how their decisions affect what we buy. Taking as the starting point the very meaning of textiles, this title covers the range of opportunities for careers in this field.
Written as a chronological survey spanning prehistory to the early 21st century, this book is organized around five themes - materials, methods, trade, technology and social structures - which allow textiles from all ages to be investigated from many angles.
Offers an overview of traditional feltmaking. This book looks at the Turkic and Mongol traditions, which include felt from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Xinjiang and from Mongolia, Tibet, Bhutan and South-East Asia respectively, as well as closely associated styles from Afghanistan and the Caucasus.
The story of silk through the ages, reproducing hundreds of fabrics, furnishings and garments from all parts of the world. From ancient China the narrative leads by the legendary silk routes to Byzantium and the Islamic world, to Ottoman Turkey, and on to Renaissance Europe.
Dine textile and basketry weavings in Santa Fe's Museum of Indian Arts and Culture collections created between the 1850s and the 1890s allow us to explore the oral history of Spider Woman and the early history of the Dine during this time. This book presents two viewpoints on Dine weaving.
This guide should be of use to interior designers, students and others who use textiles in their work. Coverage includes: terminology and types of textile design; design methods; the studio and materials; printing and weaving processes; colour choices; and rendering and presentation techniques.
Intended for undergraduate programs of colleges and universities that focus on fashion merchandising, fashion design and interior design, this work provides an approach to the fundamentals of textiles. It focuses on comprehension of the interrelationship between the components of textiles to help students understand textile properties.
Covering textiles, this sourcebook provides information that range from colour-changing, light-sensitive camouflage to emergency shelters of cement-impregnated fabric bonded to an inflatable plastic, from Eley Kishimotos gorgeous patterns to the astonishing colours of Morphotex.
A book to help beginner textile artists find inspiration for their work, through simple exercises designed to unlock creativity Clear, straightforward text and inspirational images take the reader from the very beginning of the creative process to the finished piece, without scaring them off
From booties and scarves to art and fashion, this work addresses knitting as art, craft, design, fashion and performance, and as an aspect of the everyday. It investigates not merely why knitting is so popular now but also the reasons why knitting has such longevity.
For the wealthy, the eighteenth century was a period of decadent splendour, and their clothing was no exception. Gail Marsh, a costume and textiles curator and senior lecturer in fashion and textiles, has delved into archives to research the techniques and tools that embroiderers of the day used to create bewitching items of clothing.
The Victoria and Albert Museum has an unrivalled collection of Iranian textiles from the first half of the nineteenth century. This book presents over 200 Qajar textiles, and describes the political and economic context against which they were produced. It is suitable for interior designers, textile students, and for those involved in fashion.
Suitable for those with an interest in surface design and pattern whether they are students, hobbyists or professionals, this work features images drawn from a variety of styles, art movements and countries of origin to give an overview of pattern design from the beginning of the last century to the present day.
This highly illustrated book takes a cutting edge look at the latest textiles and textile technologies. Covering all applications, including fashion, architecture, interior decoration, medicine, and industry, it includes a wide range of international artists, designers and industry names.
Presents a region-by-region survey of textiles made, worn, used and displayed in the Islamic world. This text includes details of dozens of textile techniques, such as loom types, materials, forms of decoration and local specialities, paired with specially taken colour images of textiles on display, and photographs of weavers and dyers in action.
Focuses on the significance of textiles as a major form of aesthetic expression across Africa, relating long-standing cultural practices to creative developments. This work presents some of the finest and oldest preserved examples of West African textile traditions, and examines both their artistic and technical qualities.
Draws on highlights from the V&A's collections of woven, printed and embroidered textiles and their designs. Based on the "V&A's British Textiles" series, and with an introduction by the author, this comprehensive compendium brings together a visual history of British fabrics with over 1000 images.
Portable and practical, tough and colourful, Bedouin textiles played a vital and functional part in the life of the Arab nomads. Bedouin women were expected to master the art of making entire tents as well as a wide range of rugs, and saddlebags. This title presents a study of the weaving methods practised by the Bedouin of Saudi Arabia.
Batik has very special place in the world of textiles. No other cloth in Asia, perhaps in the world, contains so much symbolism. In the philosophy of its colours and designs, and the way it is made, folded and worn, batik expresses the spirit of the Indonesians and their heritage.
A sequel to the best-selling "Shibori", this text provides a modern perspective on shaped-resist dyeing techniques in textile design. Japan's top fashion designers are examined, including Yohji Yamamoto and Issey Miyake and a 96-page section features the work of 24 international artists.
Jacqueline Groag was probably the most influential textile designer in Britain in the post Second World War era. Although originally Czech, she studied textile and pattern design in Austria with the Secessionist architect and designer Josef Hoffmann, in the 1920s. From 1940 until her death in 1986, Jacqueline had a long and successful career.
The richly woven and embroidered textiles explored in this book belong to the Miao minority group of the Guizhui province in south-west China. Over 20 such textiles from the British Museum's collection are examined and illustrated here in detail, providing designers with inspiration.
Abstraction and colour. Those are the buzzwords designating the salient characteristics of Amish quilts, which remind those looking at them of modern painting, be it Josef Albers, Barnett Newman or others. Europeans began to discover Amish quilts in 1960s when Minimal art and Concrete art were in their heyday. This work deals with this subject.
This highly illustrated book takes a cutting edge look at the latest textiles and textile technologies. Covering all applications, including fashion, architecture, interior decoration, medicine, and industry, it includes a wide range of international artists, designers and industry names.
The book guides the reader through all the basic techniques, provides templates as necessary and generally shows how even a beginner can achieve beautiful quilt blocks. The patterns are coded as to difficulty to help the novice quilter find her level, and the patterns included are both beautiful and inspirational.
Intends to elevate the cozy from humble to cool. This title includes 32 cute projects, created by a pool of talented designers that show how great a comeback can be: they're colourful, modern and playfully feminine. It presents an overview of sewing basics, embellishment techniques, construction methods and fabrics that make the crafting easy.
Discusses how textiles are an integral part of the human life journey from cradle to grave in a multitude of practical, symbolic and spiritual ways. This title illustrates the many uses of textiles in our everyday lives. It outlines how textiles are a means of communication functional, political and artistic and a metaphor for transcendence.
Uses household accounts, women's magazines, letters, novels and the works of art themselves to trace through history how the separation of the craft of embroidery from the fine arts came to be a major force in the marginalisation of women's work. This book also discusses the contradictory nature of women's experience of embroidery.
The author draws on her extensive travels to provide a living context for the varied textiles made in over 100 rural Mexican communities. Techniques and clothing styles are explained and brief commentaries highlight the key features that make the designs so uniquely Mexican.
Throughout the world the last decade has seen a flowering of decorative textiles for furnishing and fashion, and of textiles as high art. This book draws together the diverse strands of this textiles world, with reproductions of work by the best practitioners worldwide.
The 66 examples of embroideries illustrated in this book are from the Tulunid period, the Fatamid period, the Ayyubid period, and the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria, ending with the Ottoman Conquest in 1517 and demonstrate the variety of embroidery stitches already in use at that time.
In the world of the ancient Andes, textiles were often the most valuable commodity people possessed a far beyond gold and silver a and were a major medium for conveying key cultural meaning. This title features exquisite pieces, many of great iconographic and technical importance, ranging in date from the Paracas to the Inka and Colonial periods.
Showcases textiles from countries and regions of the world renowned for their rich textile and design heritage. It includes various techniques of production: embroidery, weaving, printing and dyeing. It shows each individual textile in full through a series of detailed photographs.
An illustrated survey of the vivid and romantic textile tradition of Central Asia. The colour plates display the opulent silks and velvets, the exquisite embroideries, felts and woollen fabrics produced throughout the area in the workshops of the Silk Route.
Sheila Hicks (born 1934) is a pioneering artist noted for objects and public commissions whose structures are built of colour and fibre. This volume accompanies the first major retrospective of Hicks's work. It documents the dramatically divergent scale of her textiles as well as her distinctive use, and surprising range, of materials.
This book examines the 'social life' of Gujarat's textiles, tracing the historical journey of cloth and dress up to the present day. It looks closely at dyed and painted textiles, and embroidery, and locates their place in culture, trade and commerce, and the role of entrepreneurship in the survival of these handmade textiles.
A visual feast, this text illustrates the richness and diversity of the African textile tradition, providing designers at all levels with inspiration for their own work. Over 30 textiles from the British Museum's renowned collection are explored in detailed.
Quilting, once regarded as a traditional craft, has broken through the barriers of history, art and commerce to become a global phenomenon, international multi-billion dollar industry and means of gendered cultural production. This book explores how and why women quilt.
Presents an overview of the textiles from Balkans, setting the techniques for making them within their historical and geographical context. This book offers insights into the highly decorated textiles produced by the various ethnic, clan and religious groups of the area. It explores the elements of garment shape, colour, motif and symbolism.
Travellers to Burma over the centuries have recorded the sumptuous textiles produced and worn in great variety by the different peoples living there. This text presents the richness of these textiles, illustrated using examples from the James Henry Green collection at Brighton Museum.
Japan is a world leader in fibre arts, with practitioners whose deep understanding of inherited materials and techniques has given them freedom to move beyond traditional utility to create innovative and beautiful works of art. This book features some twenty-five artists, from seasoned veterans to relative newcomers.
Takes the reader on an international textile tour with a fabric-collecting fashion designer. Taking the reader from Vietnam to Benin, from Central America to northern India, this book is brimful of stunning costumes, vibrant fabrics and breathtaking detail. It is suitable for designers and those who love fashion.