Fabric Glossary - Softcover

Humphries, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0133496716 ISBN 13: 9780133496710

Publisher: Pearson Education (US), 1996

Synopsis

This dictionary of the world's fabrics illustrates all aspects of fabric production and behavior, including vivid computer scans of actual samples. Coverage identifies hundreds of fabrics by individual characteristics and history, spanning the fiber families; range of fabric weights -- sheer to heavy; fabrics classified by end-use categories; and fabric files and samples.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Fabric Glossary offers a unique dual aid for anyone studying, working with, or interested in textiles. It is a fabric dictionary, covering some 600 textile terms, to address the most-frequently asked question, "What is it called?" It distinguishes fabrics, one from another, by name, construction details, and origin, all visually enhanced with clear photos. Many of these show the fabric "dissected" to reveal significant or essential aspects of structure. At the same time, it serves as a superb swatch book, allowing for the mounting of actual samples of fabric, which are the best possible illustrations of any individual material.

Fabric Glossary is also designed as a companion in textiles study to Fabric Reference, which covers the technical specifics that contribute to each "name fabric;" links to Fabric Glossary are given at all stages in Fabric Reference, and indexed there as well. Both of these books are notable in that either (or both) of them would be used even more after a course of study is completed―in almost any area of work involving fabrics!

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0133496716
• ISBN 13: 9780133496710
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 291