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Art to Wear
By : Jana Ewy
This book covers two trends --embellishments and wearable art. Basic projects of this book include everything from jewelry and purses to belts and shoes and craft techniques like beading, painting, stamping and metal crafts, it also include creative embellishments for every taste, including eyelets, beads, rhinestones and paint
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Rip It! How to Deconstruct and Reconstruct the Clothes of Your Dreams
By : Elissa Meyrich
The book teaches beginners and experienced sewers to create apparels having new designs from an old wardrobe by customizing pieces bought from cheap chain stores, thrift shops, or found in closet. It contains basic information on sewing and alteration, faster sewing methods, sources of supplies, advice on which fabrics, important cutting rules, with illustrated layouts & drawings.
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Bridal Gowns: How to Make the Wedding Dress of Your Dreams
By : Susan E. Andriks
This book teaches designing, creating and sewing wedding gowns. It provides various ideas, tips and techniques for making wedding gowns. The book has tips for cutting and sewing lace, sewing satins and other slippery fabrics, embellishments, trains, veils and headpieces. It also gives a simple guide for creating a total wedding color plan, including attendants gowns and flowers.
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Fabric Science Swatch Kit
By : Arthur Price
The book covers the entire textile industry including technological advances, shift of textile production from industrial to developing countries, international trade, textile laws and regulations, and fabric specifications for quality assurance. The kit having 101 fabric swatches, accompanies 'Fabric Science', 8th Edition for supplementing the study of textiles. Swatches represent the types of fabrics currently available in the textile industry for apparel or home furnishing manufacturers.
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All About Silk: A Fabric Dictionary and Swatchbook
By : Julie Parker
' All About Silk' is one of the books from the Fabric Reference Series which has two other books, ' All About Cotton' and ' All About Wool'. This book informs about the various types of silk fibers and fabrics available today. A real cloth example is there with description of each of the fabric type. It also explains different weaves,
yarns and techniques used for manufacturing silk fabrics.
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Smart fibres, fabrics and clothing
By : Edited by X M Tao
This book includes basics and new developments in smart technology for textiles and clothing. The contributors are distinguished international experts who have provided various aspects of cutting edge research and development. The book covers a wide range of material science and fiber science aspects of technology that will interest the academics in textile and materials science departments, researchers, designers and engineers in the textiles and clothing product design sector.
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Synthetic fibre dyeing
By : C Hawkyard
With the increasing importance of synthetic fibers, new challenges have been posed before the coloration technologists as they found the prevalent dyes used for natural fiber unsuitable for these new fibers. This book covers the dyeing techniques for polyester, nylon, acrylic and modacrylic fibers, acetate and triacetate fibers, microfibers, and fabrics containing elastane.
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Surface Characteristics of Fibers and Textiles, Vol. 94
By : Christopher Pastore and Paul Kiekens
The book explores the surface characteristics of fibers and textiles. It explains by focusing on how fiber surface affects permeability, stiffness, strength, dyeing, wrinkling, and other performance characteristics so that the production is optimized. It also contains the techniques to develop wrinkle-resistant finishes on fiber surfaces in environmental friendly ways.
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Intertwined: The Art of Handspun Yarn, Modern Patterns and Creative Spinning
By : Lexi Boeger
Intertwined is for those who are enthusiastic about fibers and yarns. It includes techniques for handspun yarns, project ideas for knitters and crocheters, tips on how to use handspun or bought yarns and a collection of handmade creations. The book also features profiles, anecdotes, essays, and thoughts on fiber arts and the creative process.
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No-Sew Fabric Décor: Transform Your Home without Sewing a Stitch
By : Pamela Hastings
No-Sew Fabric Décor teaches how to create home furnishings and home accessories without sewing a single stitch. It includes step-by-step projects about no-sew techniques, where the home furnishings are made with a glue gun, staple gun, fusible web, grommets, Velcro, and other such techniques.
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Favorite Rag Rugs
By : Tina Ignell
This guide provide detailed design and color pattern for 45 rugs that represent wide range of weaving techniques. This book can be used from beginners to professionals
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Curtains, Cushions, Covers and Blinds
By : Jean Nayar
'Curtains, Cushions, Covers and Blinds' is a reference guide for making various kinds of soft furnishing for the home. It includes practical workshops that give step-by-step instructions about techniques and items, with trouble-shooting and design advice. It includes image galleries that provide ideas for fabric, shapes, design details, and more.
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Hats Gloves Scarves: Easy Designer Knits for Family and Friends
By : Louisa Harding
The book contains projects with instructions and photographs for making hats, gloves and scarves for the whole family. All the projects involve simple knitting and finishing and embellishments with ribbons, beads, or embroidery. There are also helpful tips and hints for measuring proper length for a scarf and for other such items.
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Collecting Men's Belt Buckles
By : Joseph V. Saitta
The book showcases men's belt buckles from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through color photographs. Masculine lifestyles are represented along with all kinds of including Military, police, fire service, western, and youth group buckles. It also includes collecting tips and values which can be an excellent reference for the dealer and collector. The book is particularly useful for clothing and jewelry designers and fashion historians.
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From Barbs on a Weed to Velcro
By : Toney Allman
The book tells the story of the invention of Velcro by inspiration from nature's perfect fastening system. It represents how the Swiss engineer, George de Mestral, attracted by the sticking ability of the burs from wild plants, uncovered the secret of the microscopic hooked tips that clung tightly to the loops in clothes and animal hair.
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Chemical Testing of Textiles
By : Qinguo Fan
The book provides the chemical analysis procedure for a wide range of textiles. The topics include fiber and yarn identification, chemical analysis of textile materials, analysis of common chemicals used in textile wet processes, analysis of chemicals used in fiber and fabric finishing, textile coatings and membranes, analysis of damage to textiles, water and wastewater analysis, and analysis of colorants.
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Chemical Principles of Textile Conservation
By : Agnes Timar-Balazsy and Dinah Eastop
The book explains the chemical processes during various treatments, such as cleaning, humidification, drying, disinfestation, disinfection, and the use of adhesives and consolidants in conservation of historical textiles. It also includes practical examples and case studies of preserving textiles. It is particularly useful for textile conservators who don't have a scientific background.
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The Painted Quilt: Paint and Print Techniques for Colour on Quilts
By : Linda Kemshall & Laura Kemshall
The book explains the process of coloring cloth through different techniques including fabric paints, pastels, dyes, bleaches and transfers. It teaches to produce complex textile surfaces by combining simple techniques with the help of step-by-step photographs and instructions.
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Textile Machines
By : Anna P. Benson
The book describes about 50 important textile machines with analysis of their evolution from the twelfth century to the present day. The revolutionary inventions of the 18th century have also been examined along with their impact on industrialization of textile industry.
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Cotton Ginners Handbook
By : W. S. Anthony
The book contains key issues regarding cotton ginning facilities, machinery, cleaning, ginning, drying, packaging, & waste collection & disposal as well as ancillary issues concerned with pollution, management, economics, energy, insurance, safety, cotton classification, & textile machinery.
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The 2009-2014 World Outlook for Parts and Attachments for Textile Machinery
The study concerns the world outlook for parts and attachments for textile machinery across more than 200 countries. The estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.), for the country in question (in millions of U.S. dollars), the percent share the country is of the region and of the globe.
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Promowear
Promowear is a book which include information on the promotional-products industry. It mainly include dynamic apparel and related products categories.
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Making Leather Purses & Totes
By : Lisa Galvin
The book contains projects for making leather bags that can easily be made by anyone. The projects have been explained through step by step instructions and photographs. It also teaches different ways to tool, brand, punch, cut, stitch, glue, and embellish leather, and to add other hardware, such as clasps and latches.
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101 Fabulous Fat-Quarter Bags
By : M'Liss Rae Hawley
The book contains projects for making small and large purses, totes, and zippered pouches with embellishments. It also includes a gallery of 101 bags to inspire designer originals. It also has a separate chapter on handles and closures.
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Creative Weaving
By : Sarah Howard & Elisabeth Kendrick
This book teaches variety of weaving styles, from traditional to playful, from subtle variations, featuring 30 spectacular fabric designs,A gallery shows how 12 weaves can be transformed into functional objects, including throws, cushions, shawls, and scarves.
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Draping for Apparel Design
By : Helen Joseph - Armstrong
This book guide about various apparel design, with easy stiching tips without sketching and drafting
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