Textile category: 195 books
How to Tie a Scarf
33 Styles
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
From designer silk squares to chunky homemade knits, this guide is filled with inspired ways to style your scarves. Inside you'll find:
• Step-by-step tutorials for square, oblong, and embellished scarves
• Styles for the summer, fall, winter, and spring seasons
• DIY scarf accessories featuring camera straps, tote bags, necklaces, and more
Make: Props and Costume Armor
Create Realistic Science Fiction & Fantasy Weapons, Armor, and Accessories
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Have you been trying to think of a way to conquer your local comic convention through cosplay? Do you gaze with envious eyes upon the fan-made suits of armored awesomeness strolling around every year on Halloween? Do you have a spot on your wall, bookshelf, or desk that desperately needs to be filled...
African Dress
Fashion, Agency, Performance
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Dress and fashion practices in Africa and the diaspora are dynamic and diverse, whether on the street or on the fashion runway.
Focusing on the dressed body as a performance site, African Dress explores how ideas and practices of dress contest or legitimize existing power structures through...
Fashion's Double
Representations of Fashion in Painting, Photography and Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Mere clothing is transformed into desirable fashion by the way it is represented in imagery. Fashion's Double examines how meanings are projected onto garments through their representation, whether in painting, photography, cinema or online fashion film, conveying identity and status, eliciting fascination...
Inside the Royal Wardrobe
A Dress History of Queen Alexandra
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Queen Alexandra used clothes to fashion images of herself as a wife, a mother and a royal: a woman who both led Britain alongside her husband Edward VII and lived her life through fashion. Inside the Royal Wardrobe overturns the popular portrait of a vapid and neglected queen, examining the surviving...
Know It All Fashion
The 50 Key Modes, Garments, and Designers, Each Explained in Under a Minute
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Most of us have some feeling for fashion and have a vague idea of what’s in and what’s out. Less familiar to most, however, is the way fashion works as a global business. Know-It-All Fashion looks beyond the surface of this billion-dollar industry. Each entry is summarized in under a minute–using...
by Klaus Carl
Language: French
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Qu’y-a-t-il de plus banal qu’une paire de chaussures ? Pourtant, aujourd’hui encore, la moitié de l’humanité n’en connaît pas l’usage. Dans un monde où la chaussure est devenue un objet de consommation, comment oublier que nos arrière-grands-parents l’utilisaient pour les cérémonies...
by Klaus Carl
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Mega Square Shoes focuses on the history of the shoe and elevates the shoe to the rank of a work of art. The author is a leading expert on the subject and curator of France‘s Shoe Museum, which holds the greatest shoe collection in the world, with 12,000 specimens.
by Alexander F. Tcherviakov
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Besides its practical uses in regions across the globe, the fan has a long history as a fashion item, with new shapes, materials, and colours constantly being created. This book portrays the most artistic examples from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The imaginative shapes and expensive materials...
Design by Nature
Creating Layered, Lived-in Spaces Inspired by the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The first design book that translates elements of nature--including flora, water, and wood--into elements of decor for beautiful, lived-in, bohemian interiors, from acclaimed designer and tastemaker Erica Tanov.
Inspired by nature's colors, textures, and patterns, design icon Erica Tanov uses...
by Victoria Charles
Language: French
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Les éventails, aujourd'hui appréciés pour leur finesse et leur beauté, bénéficiaient en d'autres temps, d'une véritable fonction auprès des femmes de la bonne société. Loin d'être considérés comme de simples objets, ils se faisaient le vecteur d'un langage à part entière. Au moyen d’une...
Pattern
& the secrets of lasting design
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This is the black and white paperback ebook edition of Pattern, published in hardback in 2016 by Saltyard Books.
If you would like the original colour illustrated version of Pattern it is available in hardback ISBN 9781444734942 and ebook ISBN 9781444734966.
Creativity, collaboration, inspiration
Emma...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
This vintage book contains a complete and comprehensive handbook on cutting garments, originally intended for tailors. It covers every aspect of the subject, with chapters on designing, drawings, mathematics and measurements, tools, and much more. This timeless volume will appeal to modern tailors...
by Zoroslava Drobná, Jan Durdík, Eduard Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Over 400 illustrations in this superb pictorial archive trace the evolution of clothing styles, armor, and weapons during the medieval period in Central Europe. Unsurpassed in its comprehensiveness and variety, the volume draws upon a wealth of authentic primary sources, including written accounts,...