Textile category: 195 books
Stylish Wraps Sewing Book
Ponchos, Capes, Coats and More - Fashionable Warmers that are Easy to Sew (Download for Patterns to Print)
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This DIY sewing book presents a fabulous new collection of lightweight wraps that are easy to sew and look fantastic!
Stylish Wraps Sewing Book provides five free full-sized patterns that can be used to create 22 timeless wraps to keep the chill off—and look great in the process. All the...
Consumptive Chic
A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular 'moment' in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing out in the clothing fashions of the day. With the ravages of the illness widely regarded as conferring...
by Thomas von Nordheim
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Traditional tailoring is a fascinating craft, which has not changed for many centuries, however, the techniques are now known only by a few practising in the best couture ateliers and bespoke tailor's workrooms. Nothing feels quite so luxurious or sophisticated as bespoke clothes, but the tailoring...
Stylish Skirts
23 Easy-to-Sew Designs to Flatter Every Figure
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Sew chic and original skirts with this stylish DIY sewing book.
Stylish Skirts allows you to create simple yet stylish skirts that look and feel great—at a fraction of the cost of store-bought fashion. With this sewing book, there's no end to the kinds of skirts you can create to match your...
by Richard Conner
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
From The Author. To discover more about unlocking your time and creativity in life, work and business, along with other practical insights get the first AND second books in the Work Life Wide Open Series, 'Break Your Busy - Set Your Creativity Free' and 'The Seven Works - Reconfigure The Facets...
Art & Sole
A Spectacular Selection of More Than 150 Fantasy Art Shoes from the Stuart Weitzman Collection
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
A Spectacular Selection of More Than 150 Fantasy Art Shoes from the Stuart Weitzman Collection
When Stuart Weitzman opened its first boutique on Madison Avenue, its displays of specially commissioned fantasy shoes quickly became a destination, drawing crowds form all over the world to its magical...
Basic Black
26 Edgy Essentials for the Modern Wardrobe
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Sew chic, dark-toned clothes with this stylish sewing book and add a touch of originality to your wardrobe.
Basic Black is the English edition of a classic Japanese sewing book which provides sew-it-yourself Western-sized patterns for 26 basic garments, along with detailed, easy-to-follow diagrams...
Modern Quilts
Designs of the New Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Admire large, color photographs of the best modern quilting has to offer—more than 200 quilts curated by the Modern Quilt Guild. From the Amish and Gee’s Bend to the first use of the word "modern” in quilting, trace the history of modern quilts and learn about hallmarks of the genre in a concise...
Fancy Dresses Described
A Glossary of Victorian Costumes
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
The Victorians adored fancy-dress parties: what better way to escape the rigidity of social conventions than to spend a festive evening disguised as Cleopatra, a Swiss milkmaid, or Alice in Wonderland? Well-to-do party-goers of the era consulted Fancy Dresses Described, an elaborate guide to hundreds...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Cloth and Human Experience explores a wide variety of cultures and eras, discussing production and trade, economics, and symbolic and spiritual associations.
Dreaming of Chanel
Vintage Dresses, Timeless Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Inheriting a priceless vintage clothing collection sounds like every woman’s dream come true.
But when Charlotte Smith discovered that her American godmother, Doris Darnell, had made her custodian of more than three thousand pieces dating from 1790 to the 1990s, including originals by Chanel...
by Dover Publications, Inc., Butterick Publishing Co.
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Comprehensive in scope and elegant in presentation, this classic Victorian-era volume was the first complete how-to guide to knitting. Originally published by Butterick, the company that later produced Vogue Knitting, it constitutes a fantastic historical document as well as an easy-to-follow guide...
by Alejandro
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
You are Minutes from Becoming Awesome!Outrageous! Magnetic! Riveting!Like Lady Gaga you’ll push the socially acceptable fashion envelope and revel in it. You’ll be an attention-getting, over-the-top showstopper!Tap into Exciting Pop FunBe Part of the Lady Gaga Glam Thrill with Instant Gaga Costume...
Material Change
Design Thinking and the Social Entrepreneurship Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Material Change shows that there is something going on in design-something powerful. Design can change the world. This new way of thinking is revolutionizing the business of design and the design of business.
Material Change is the story of trained architect and entrepreneur Eve Blossom, who built...