Fashion & Textiles: Design

A turban is a strip of cloth folded and wrapped around the head; however, this description includes multifarious forms across space and time. T...

How did ordinary men and women dress in early modern Europe? What fabrics and garments formed the essential elements of fashion for artisans and sh...

A comprehensive visual survey of currently available vintage eyewear from the 1920s to the 1990s for anyone who has ever considered owning vint...

Design Materials and Making for Social Change spans the two interconnected worlds of the material and the social, at different scales and in differ...

Winner of the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2022 Traditionally associated with rural ways of life in England, often hand...

How do fashions in drinks work, and how are drinks fashions related to changing trends in clothes and apparel? These twin questions are posed and a...

In the period 1450 to 1650 in Europe, hair was braided, curled, shaped, cut, colored, covered, decorated, supplemented, removed, and reused in magi...

Hair, or lack of it, is one the most significant identifiers of individuals in any society. In Antiquity, the power of hair to send a series of soc...

Over the last century, there has been a revolution in self-presentation and social attitudes towards hair. Developments in mass manufacturing, adva...

The Enlightenment (1650-1800) was the Golden Age of hair. Hair dominated fashion as never before or since, with more men and women than ever donnin...

The Middle Ages were a time of great innovation, artistic vigor, and cultural richness. Appearances mattered a great deal during this vibrant era a...

19th and early 20th-century hair appears to be everywhere when you start to look, from the abundant locks of the pre-Raphaelites to the myriad obje...

Reading the Thread brings together artists, theorists and designers to explore the nature and use of cloth as a means of record and communication. ...

Reading the Thread brings together artists, theorists and designers to explore the nature and use of cloth as a means of record and communication. ...

Indonesian fashion has undergone a period of rapid growth over the last three decades. This book explores how through years of social, political, a...

This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides novel insights into the city of Rome during one of ...

From sweatshops to fur farming, from polluting chemicals to painful garments, the fashion industry is associated with activities which have had dev...

Learn the elements of the global supply chain so that you can run a fashion business. This book takes you through the entire fashion supply chain f...

The development of digital textile printing at the end of the twentieth century has had a profound effect on the design, creation, use and understa...

Festivals celebrate occasions and moods and generate their own realities that manifest as living memories. Festivals transform people, allowing the...