Textiles Today: A Global Survey of Trends and Traditions 381 color illustrations.This survey brings together a wide range of images and perspectives. Extraordinary technological developments, from color-changing, light-sensitive camouflage
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| Title | : | Textiles Today: A Global Survey of Trends and Traditions |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.60 (792 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0500288038 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2009-05-25 |
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This survey brings together a wide range of images and perspectives. Extraordinary technological developments, from color-changing, light-sensitive camouflage to emergency shelters of cement-impregnated fabric bonded to an inflatable plastic, are included here alongside the simply beautiful, such as Eley Kishimoto’s patterns that point to the historical exchange of ideas between East and West. 381 color illustrations
Editorial : From Booklist The author discovers fibers with amazing qualities—Morphotext, for instance, which mimics the arrangement of layers of cuticle on a butterfly’s wings. Or the hitherto-nonpublic New England–based Future Force Warrior Program, which experiments with fabrics to enhance solders’ physical capacities. Objects play a supporting role in this textile transformation, with world-renowned architects and designers (such as Issey Miyake) contributing items like knotted chairs, solar-powered fabric lights, and a Beijing Olympics swimming pool fabricated of ETFE foils. The list of jaw-dropping soft inventions goes on and on: wallpaper patterns driven by digital technology, public knitting events, and African quilts. --Barbara Jacobs
It is quite convenient to have this material gathered together; overall, a useful and very nicely produced little study.. TEXTILES TODAY: A GLOBAL SURVEY OF TRENDS AND TRADITIONS surveys a rapidly-changing global arena of fabrics and textiles, considering collaborative projects between fabric makers and fashion designers and offering plenty of photo examples of new textiles and their applications. I wish there were even more information, specifying exactly how one can look at the individual pieces and see what is "wrong" with them, maybe with detail photos even, but this is far ahead of most such works that ignore or gloss over problematic pieces.
Prospective buyers should be aware that "decorative arts" here does not include silverwares, which I presume must be in the volume of sculpture and metalwork. One of the most commendable features of this catalog is that it very carefully identifies these, with references to the scholarship on the fakers where available. It is inter
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