The Art Of Textile Designing

Description

Textiles are one of human beings oldest creations, and today have a huge range of function and application. Textile design is the understanding and creation of textiles to solve design problems. It involves an understanding of traditional techniques as well as modern mass production methods. Textile design is the process of creating designs and structures for knitted, woven, non-woven or embellishments of fabrics. Textile designing involves producing patterns for cloth used in clothing, household textiles such as towels and decorative textiles such as carpets. The field encompasses the actual pattern making as well as supervising part or all of the production process. In other words, textile design is a process from the raw material into finished product. Fibre, yarn and finishes are the key elements to be considered during the textile design procedure. Textile design today is that strategic value adding activity that can make all the difference in transforming a fashion business into an economically viable and profitable proposition.
The present book covers the entire textile design process from briefing through initial ideas, research and design development to finished fabrics. It will be an invaluable reference for students of textile design as well as buyers and merchandisers of textile products and anyone requiring an understanding of the textile design process.