Textile Industries
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Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
Dana ThomasCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50'A gripping blockbuster... Thomas researches meticulously and writes with simmering even-handed anger' TELEGRAPH. Fashionopolis is the definitive ...
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Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool
Clara ParkesCurrent price €19.54Original price €22.99A fast-paced account of the year Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yarn, and the people and vanishing indu...
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Tintawn and Binder Twine: The Story of Eric Rigby-Jones and Irish Ropes
John Rigby-JonesCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99When the future of his family''s rope business in Liverpool was threatened at the end of the 1920s Eric Rigby-Jones had to leave his wife and young...
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The Merchant of Syria: A History of Survival
Diana DarkeCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99The Merchant of Syria tells the life of Abu Chaker, a cloth merchant from Homs who lived from 1921 to 2013. Barely literate, he nevertheless built ...
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Taroni: The Fabric That Dreams Are Made Of
Enrica MoriniCurrent price €80.91Original price €93.00A book about fashion, this volume tells the story of the elegant luxury fabrics of Taroni, who since 1880 have produced fabrics of the highest qual...
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The Wool Lab Preview Magazine: The #13 Issue Spring Summer 2019 - A Guide to the Best Wool Fabrics and Yarns in the World
Woolmark International Pty LtdCurrent price €60.71Original price €68.99Current price €60.71Original price €68.99Save 12% -
Supima: World''''s Finest Cottons
Paula WallaceCurrent price €66.09Original price €80.60Since 1954, Supima has dedicated itself to offering the world s finest cottons to the global fashion industry. Cross breeding strains to develop a ...
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Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism
Sven BeckertCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99WINNER OF THE 2015 BANCROFT PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2015 PHILIP TAFT PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 CUND...
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The Wool Lab Preview Magazine: The #12 Issue Autumn Winter 2018/19 - A Guide to the Best Wool Fabrics and Yarns in the World
The Woolmark Company Pty LtdCurrent price €60.71Original price €68.99Current price €60.71Original price €68.99Save 12% -
Automotive Nonwovens: Solid Gains Through Materials Substitution
Adrian WilsonCurrent price €475.14Original price €558.99Current price €475.14Original price €558.99Save 15% -
The Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 16501800
Robert S. DuPlessisCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99In this wide-ranging account, Robert DuPlessis examines globally sourced textiles that by dramatically altering consumer behaviour, helped create n...
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Trends in US Textile and Clothing Imports: May 2015
Robin AnsonCurrent price €342.31Original price €388.99Current price €342.31Original price €388.99Save 12% -
The Rag Trade: The People Who Made Our Clothes
Pam InderCurrent price €19.13Original price €21.99This book is about people who worked in the rag trade in the nineteenth century dressmakers and milliners, tailors, two shoemakers, a framework kn...
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From Pen to Print: Illuminated Manuscripts, Early Printed Books & Textiles from the Roderic Bowen Centre at Lampeter
Allan BartonCurrent price €4.73Original price €5.25Current price €4.73Original price €5.25Save 10% -
Battersby Hats of Stockport: An Illustrated History
Rupert BattersbyCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50In 1863, Stockport warehouseman William John Battersby refused to change the date of his wedding, a decision that ultimately cost him his job. He c...
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In Search of the World''s Finest Wools
Dominic DormeuilCurrent price €22.79Original price €26.50In Search of the World's Finest Wools is a photographic search around the world to find the finest wools available and to meet the dedicated people...
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Wool and Water: The Gloucestershire Woollen Industry and its Mills
Jennifer TannCurrent price €20.94Original price €26.50In the woollen industrys heyday Gloucestershire had over 200 mills, producing cloth which was transported to markets all over the world: to Europe,...
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Recycling Indian Clothing: Global Contexts of Reuse and Value
Lucy NorrisCurrent price €19.98Original price €23.50In today''s globally connected marketplace, a wedding sari in rural north India may become a woman''s blouse or cushion cover in a Western boutique...
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From Wool to Cloth: The Triumph of the Suffolk Clothier
Nicholas R. AmorCurrent price €20.83Original price €24.50Current price €20.83Original price €24.50Save 15% -
Life in the Mill
Anthony BurtonCurrent price €10.79Original price €11.99For centuries, most textile manufacturing relied on people working in their own homes. All that changed in 1761 when Richard Arkwright began constr...
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The Song of the Shirt: The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh
Jeremy SeabrookCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Oh, Men, with Sisters dear! Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you re wearing out, But human creatures lives! Stitch stitch stitch, I...
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Textiles and Clothing of Vi?t Nam: A History
Michael C. HowardCurrent price €43.49Original price €49.99Vi?t Nam is home to more than 50 ethnic minorities-such as the Cham and Thai-many of which have distinctive clothing and weaving traditions linked ...
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American Phoenix: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, A Man Who Turned Disaster Into Destiny
Sarah S. KilborneCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99The incredible story of millionaire manufacturer William Skinner, a leading founder of the American silk industry, who lost everything in a devasta...
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