Textile Costume category: 195 books
Basic Black
26 Edgy Essentials for the Modern Wardrobe
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Sew chic, dark-toned clothes with this stylish sewing book and add a touch of originality to your wardrobe.
Basic Black is the English edition of a classic Japanese sewing book which provides sew-it-yourself Western-sized patterns for 26 basic garments, along with detailed, easy-to-follow diagrams...
Modern Quilts
Designs of the New Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Admire large, color photographs of the best modern quilting has to offer—more than 200 quilts curated by the Modern Quilt Guild. From the Amish and Gee’s Bend to the first use of the word "modern” in quilting, trace the history of modern quilts and learn about hallmarks of the genre in a concise...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Cloth and Human Experience explores a wide variety of cultures and eras, discussing production and trade, economics, and symbolic and spiritual associations.
Dreaming of Chanel
Vintage Dresses, Timeless Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Inheriting a priceless vintage clothing collection sounds like every woman’s dream come true.
But when Charlotte Smith discovered that her American godmother, Doris Darnell, had made her custodian of more than three thousand pieces dating from 1790 to the 1990s, including originals by Chanel...
by Dover Publications, Inc., Butterick Publishing Co.
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Comprehensive in scope and elegant in presentation, this classic Victorian-era volume was the first complete how-to guide to knitting. Originally published by Butterick, the company that later produced Vogue Knitting, it constitutes a fantastic historical document as well as an easy-to-follow guide...
Material Change
Design Thinking and the Social Entrepreneurship Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Material Change shows that there is something going on in design-something powerful. Design can change the world. This new way of thinking is revolutionizing the business of design and the design of business.
Material Change is the story of trained architect and entrepreneur Eve Blossom, who built...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
From products we use to clothes we wear, and spaces we inhabit, we rely on colour to provide visual appeal, data codes and meaning. Color and Design addresses how we understand and experience colour, and through specific examples explores how colour is used in a spectrum of design-based disciplines...
Fashion Journalism
History, Theory, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Fashion is all around us, and so too is fashion journalism. Discussions of fashion proliferate in an ever-increasing range of media, from newspapers and magazines to tweets and TV programs. Fashion Journalism: History, Theory and Practice is an accessible, comprehensive guide to writing about fashion...
The Religious Life of Dress
Global Fashion and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
From clothing to the painted and scarified nude body, through overt, public display or esoteric symbols known only to the initiated, dress can convey information about beliefs, faith, identity, power, agency, resistance, and fashion. Taking a 'senses' approach, Hume's engaging account takes into consideration...
The Fashion Forecasters
A Hidden History of Color and Trend Prediction
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
The fashion business has been collecting and analyzing information about colors, fabrics, silhouettes, and styles since the 18th century - activities that have long been shrouded in mystery. The Fashion Forecasters is the first book to reveal the hidden history of color and trend forecasting and to...
Fashion Trends
Analysis and Forecasting
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
This text is designed to introduce undergraduate students to the central concepts of fashion trend analysis and forecasting. Exploring the roles of both consumers and industry personnel as product developers, gatekeepers, and promoters of fashion trends, the book demonstrates how and why forecasting...
Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion
New Perspectives from Europe and North America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Introducing innovative new research from international scholars working on Islamic fashion and its critics, Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion provides a global perspective on muslim dress practices. The book takes a broad geographic sweep, bringing together the sartorial experiences of Muslims in locations...
Street Style
An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Winner of the 2019 John Collier Jr Award
Street style blogging has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity over the last decade. Amateur photographers, often with no formal training in fashion, have become critical arbiters of taste and trends, influencing the representations that appear...
How to Accessorize
A Perfect Finish to Every Outfit
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Micaela Erlanger has dressed and accessorized many celebrities for the red carpet, now she's sharing her hottest fashion tips for finishing any outfit with you. It's chock-full of tips on what you really want to know: Do your bag and shoes need to match? Can you mix metals? What’s the most flattering...