Textile Futures: Fashion, Design and Technology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781845208080)

Textiles connect a variety of practices and traditions, ranging from the refined couture garments of Parisian fashion to the high-tech filaments strong enough to hoist a satellite into space. High-performance fabrics are being reconceived as immersive webs, structural networks and information exchanges, and their ability to interface with technology is changing how the human body is experienced and how the urban environment is built. Today, textiles reveal their capacity to transform our world more than any other material. Textile Futures highlights recent works from key practitioners and examines the changing role of textiles. Recent developments present new technical possibilities that are beginning to redefine textiles as a uniquely multidisciplinary field of innovation and research. This book is an important tool for any textile practitioner, fashion designer, architect, interior designer or student designer interested in following new developments in the field of textiles, seeking new sustainable sources, or just eager to discover new works that reveal the potency of textiles as an ultramaterial.

Author: Bradley Quinn
ISBN-10: 1845208080
ISBN-13: 9781845208080
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2010
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.70w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2011