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This book brings together our present-day knowledge about textile
terminology in the Akkadian language of the first-millennium BC. In
fact, the progress in the study of the Assyrian dialect and its
grammar and lexicon has shown the increasing importance of studying
the language as well as cataloging and analysing the terminology of
material culture in the documentation of the first world empire.
The book analyses the terms for raw materials, textile procedures,
and textile end products consumed in first-millennium BC Assyria.
In addition, a new edition of a number of written records from
Neo-Assyrian administrative archives completes the work. The book
also contains a number of tables, a glossary with all the discussed
terms, and a catalogue of illustrations. In light of the recent
development of textile research in ancient languages, the book is
aimed at providing scholars of Ancient Near Eastern studies and
ancient textile studies with a comprehensive work on the Assyrian
textiles.
The fashion business has been collecting and analyzing information
about colors, fabrics, silhouettes, and styles since the 18th
century - activities that have long been shrouded in mystery. The
Fashion Forecasters is the first book to reveal the hidden history
of color and trend forecasting and to explore its relevance to the
fashion business of the past two centuries. It sheds light on trend
forecasting in the industrial era, the profession's maturation
during the modernist moment of the 20th century, and its continued
importance in today's digital fast-fashion culture. Based on
in-depth archival research and oral history interviews, The Fashion
Forecasters examines the entrepreneurs, service companies, and
consultants that have worked behind the scenes to connect designers
and retailers to emerging fashion trends in Europe, North America,
and Asia. Here you will read about the trend studios, color
experts, and international trade fairs that formalized the
prediction process in the modern era, and hear the voices of
leading contemporary practitioners at international forecasting
companies such as the Doneger Group in New York and WGSN in London.
Probing the inner workings of the global fashion system, The
Fashion Forecasters blends history, biography, and ethnography into
a highly readable cultural narrative.
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The Big Book of Over 500 Patterns and Designs
- Fractal, Geometrical, Asymmetrical, Victorian, Arabesque, Nature, Dots, 3D, Abstract, Floral and More
(Paperback)
Jennifer Lauretti
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While the topic of sustainability in textile manufacture has been
the subject of considerable research, much of this is limited to a
focus on materials and practices and their ecological impact.
Padovani and Whittaker offer a unique exploration of the textile
industry in Europe from the perspective of social sustainability,
shifting the focus from the materiality of textile production to
the industry's relationships with the communities from which the
products originate. Featuring six in-depth case studies from design
entrepreneurs, artisans and textile businesses around Europe, from
Harris Tweed in Scotland to luxury woollen mills in Italy,
Sustainability and the Social Fabric explores how new centres of
textile manufacturing have emerged from the economic decline in
2008, responding creatively and producing socially inclusive
approaches to textile production. Case studies each represent a
different approach to social sustainability and are supported by
interviews with industry leaders and comparisons to the global
textile industry. Demonstrating how some companies are rebuilding
the local social fabric to encourage consumer participation through
education, enterprise, health and wellbeing, the book suggests
innovative business models that are economically successful and
also, in turn, support wider societal issues. Essential reading for
students of textiles, fashion, design and related subjects, this
book will demonstrate how a business ecosystem that focuses on
inclusive growth and social innovation can lead to sustained mutual
benefit for textile industries and their local communities.
Take up your all-access pass to one of the most dynamic areas of
the international fashion industry. Lavishly illustrated and packed
with industry insights, The Fashion Show is the must-have guide to
showing off a collection. You will learn about: The context of the
fashion show and its significance for brands, designers,
journalists and others working in the fashion industry; How a
fashion show is produced, everything from agreeing a vision to
casting the models to setting up backstage; What happens on show
day, and how to use the impact of your show. Future fashion
designers, fashion marketers, fashion managers, fashion PRs - and
creative practitioners looking to learn more about this fascinating
part of the industry, you are cordially invited to join Gill Stark
in the front row of The Fashion Show.
This pioneering book explores the notion of 'radical decadence' as
concept, aesthetic and lived experience, and as an analytical
framework for the study of contemporary feminist textile art.
Gendered discourses of decadence that perpetuate anxieties about
women's power, consumption and pleasure are deconstructed through
images of drug use, female sexuality and 'excessive' living, in
artworks by several contemporary textile artists including Orly
Cogan, Tracey Emin, Allyson Mitchell, and Rozanne Hawksley.
Perceptions of decadence are invariably bound to the negative
connotations of decay and degradation, particularly with regard to
the transgression of social norms related to femininity and the
female body. Excessive consumption by women has historically been
represented as grotesque, and until now, women's pleasure in
relation to drug and alcohol use has largely gone unexamined in
feminist art history and craft studies. Here, representations of
female consumption, from cupcakes to alcohol and cocaine, are
opened up for critical discussion. Drawing on feminist and queer
theories, Julia Skelly considers portrayals of 'bad girls' in
artworks that explore female sexuality - performative pieces
designed to subvert and exceed feminine roles. In this provocative
book, decadence is understood not as a destructive force but as a
liberating aesthetic.
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