Book Details
This is the only comprehensive introduction to textiles and will become a standard textbook on textiles and fashion courses. Taking as their starting point the very meaning of textiles, Gale and Kaur go on to show the astonishing range of opportunities for careers in the field, from the creative (artists, craftspeople and designers) to the social and industrial, to the commercial and associated practices (buyers, journalists, researchers and scientists). The Textile Book takes us behind the scenes with professionals to reveals what various jobs involve, what influences decision makers, and how their decisions affect what we buy next season. What happens to clothes before they reach the shops? What determines the "must have" item? How can recycled bottles be transformed into silk-like yarns? These and many other questions are explored to show the diversity that makes up the contemporary global textile scene.
Author Biography: Colin Gale is Head of the School of Textiles and Jasbir Kaur is Lecturer in the Department of Textiles, Fashion and Three Dimensional Design both at University of Central England and Birmingham Institute of Art and Design.
- Binding Paperback
- Author/s Kaur, Jasbir / Gale, Colin
- ISBN13 9781859735121
- ISBN10 1859735126
- Pages 205
- Published 2002
- Language English
The Textile book
- Author Jasbir Kaur , Colin Gale
- Publisher BERG PUBLISHERS
- ISBN 9781859735121
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