Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Today's textile and fashion designers are presented with a myriad of choices when creating their work and preparing it for manufacture. Knowledge about materials and processes helps designers to create textiles and products that can be manufactured effectively, sometimes thousands of miles from their studio, as well as inspiring entirely new approaches to design. This fundamental new resource explores established, traditional, emerging and innovative techniques and materials used in textile and fashion design.

This fundamental new resource explores established, traditional, emerging and innovative production techniques and materials used in textile and fashion design. Organized into four main parts - Fibre and Yarn Technology, Textile Technology, Construction Technology, and Materials - parts one to three explain over 70 major processes in detail, each featuring a technical description, an analysis of the applications, design opportunities and considerations, quality, cost, speed and environmental impact. All of the processes feature detailed step-by-step case studies showing the process 'in manufacture' at a leading international supplier. Part four features essential knowledge on over 60 natural and man-made materials.

Comprehensive, highly accessible and fully cross-referenced, this book provides professional designers with the information they need about the applications, cost, speed and environmental impact of each process. With over 2,000 specially commissioned photographs and technical diagrams, this is the indispensable, reliable, convenient and highly accessible practical reference for all textile and fashion designers that will enable them to make inspired decisions in their design projects.

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CHOICE Review

This comprehensive guide to the technical aspects of textile and fashion design projects satisfies a pressing information need among design professionals to understand the manufacturing processes of fibers, fabrics, and finishes. This richly illustrated book, featuring some 1,400 photographs and illustrations, is organized in two sections and five parts. The first three parts cover manufacturing processes from start to end, in chapters titled "Fibre and Yarn Technology," "Textile Technology," and "Construction Technology." The second part provides an in-depth analysis of processes and the composition of individual materials. Each manufacturing process is examined in detail, with a technical description and diagram of the manufacturing processes, applications for the fiber, and quality and cost analyses. Visual glossaries offer the opportunity to explore types of fibers, finishes, and uses, including wool, cotton, bast, and leaf fibers, and yarns, silk, lace, and synthetic fibers. Case studies introduce readers to leading international factories and workshops and their production processes. Profiles of materials offer an overview of the chemistry and mechanical properties, such as strength, resilience, quality, color-fastness, versatility, cost, and sustainability. Among the subjects addressed are special purpose materials, such as waterproofing and thermal insulation used in protective clothing for sports, military, and emergency response equipment. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates, two-year technical program students, graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals. --Caley Brae Cannon, Brand Library and Art Center

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Rob Thompson is an award-winning designer and the author of Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals .

Martin Thompson has received D&AD, Campaign Press, One Show and British Lion awards for his advertising Photography