Textile & Costume

The first book to celebrate the history, vintage style and visual heritage of the UK's outdoor clothing brands.When a British expedition reached the summit of Everest in 1953, it put British mountaineering at the top of the world. In the decades that...

How did ordinary men and women dress in early modern Europe? What fabrics and garments formed the essential elements of fashion for artisans and shopkeepers? Did they rely on affordable alternatives to the silks, jewellery, and decorations favoured by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350320482Author Lesley MillarFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury Visual ArtsPublisher Bloomsbury Visual ArtsWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350320499Author Lesley MillarFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury Visual ArtsPublisher Bloomsbury Visual ArtsWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080447302Author Delphine ManivetFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions Flammarion

The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, includes a remarkable array of textiles from the Islamic world, ranging widely in form, function and place of origin. Textiles of the Early Islamic Caliphates focuses on a group of tiraz and tiraz-style textiles produced...

This book details how copies of Indonesian batik, manufactured in Europe and initially intended for the South-East Asian market, enjoyed unexpected success on the west coast of Africa at the end of the 19th century. The Scottish merchant Brown Fleming...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350283626Author Katja MayFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bloomsbury Visual ArtsPublisher Bloomsbury Visual ArtsWeight(grams) 454g

Bring your personal story to life in colourful, vibrant textile art.Ailish Henderson is an exciting young textile artist whose work is fun, quirky, tells interesting stories and uses a diverse range of media, though always grounded in cloth. In this...

Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum delves into the history and the changing material culture in Europe through the stories of a basket, a carpet, a waistcoat, a uniform, and a dress. The focus on the objects from the collection of the Museum of European...

An intimate exploration of Yves Saint Laurent's creative world, captured by photographer - and son of the couturier's right-hand woman, Anne-Marie Munoz - Carlos Munoz-Yague. Yves Saint Laurent: Inside Out presents an extraordinarily intimate insight...

Textiles and clothing are interwoven with Islamic culture. In Islamicate Textiles, readers are taken on a journey from Central Asia to Tanzania to uncover the central roles that textiles play within Muslim-majority communities. This thematically...

A thoughtful, meditative guide to the ways creative textile art can soothe and comfort us during challenging times.Renowned British textile artists Cas Holmes and Deena Beverley, each well known for their richly textured, deeply evocative work in stitch,...

Tufting is a way of making wall art, rugs, and more by inserting yarn on a stretched canvas with a tufting gun. This book shows you all you need to know to make your first rug, from buying the material to using the tufting gun, assembling the frame, and...

A major new guide to mastering textile design that interweaves technical knowledge, artistic expression and storytelling. Interwoven: Exploring Materials and Structures is a joyous exploration of woven textile design. It dissects woven structures along...

Palace Costume is a behind-the-scenes glimpse into Palace Costume & Prop Co., an exclusive Los Angeles film-industry haven of dresses, gowns, garments, accessories, props, and jewelry featured in countless movies for more than fifty years.Envisioned and...

This stunning exploration of Chinese and Central Asian textiles draws from one of the world's major collections. In private hands, it features objects never before published and of a caliber customarily only seen in museums. A captivating journey...

From the ancient barbarians responsible for the fall of Rome, to the black-lipped teenager updating their Instagram from a graveyard, Goths have been with us for a long time. Ideas about what is Gothic have changed and mutated, but a fascination with the...

Back in their ’90s heyday, the Spice Girls were unstoppable. Their individual style choices and Britpop-tastic attitude aimed a defiant kick at the cultural status quo, defining a new era of British creativity and challenging the male-dominated music...

A richly illustrated book showcasing the costumes and ritual equipment obtained from Shamans in Mongolia and Siberia in the 1930s by two legendary Danish travellers, Henning Haslund-Christensen and Knud Rasmussen. Although partially described by...

Threads of Time is a journey around the world through the medium of textiles. In many communities, cultural heritage and traditions have been handed down through generations by textile artisans. Their beliefs, history, ceremonies, and traditions have...