Fashion & Textiles

Valerie Cumming Softcover | 21 x 1.2 x 25.4 cm | 144 pp Batsford | 2011 | 9780713488753 The generous reception given to Understanding Fashion History when it was first published in 2004 recognised it as a timely reappraisal of the role of fashion and its place in...

Softcover |  20.4 x 27.6 x 2 cm | 288 pp Prestel | 2011 | 9783791346960 Ever since the late 1960s when Yves Saint Laurent and Paco Rabanne presented African-inspired collections, the textiles, details, and colours of Africa have moved into the realm of high...

Hardcover | 24.77 x 4.32 x 31.75 cm | 400 pp Metropolitan Museum of Art | 2020 | 9781588396884  About Time: Fashion and Duration traces the evolution of fashion, from 1870 to the present, through a linear timeline of iconic garments, each paired with an...

Venetia Porter & Amy de la Haye Hardcover | 20.96 x 2.54 x 26.04 cm | 160 pp Unicorn Press | 2018 | 9781911604563 Starting in 1966, Thea Porter designed clothes for the rich and famous for nearly two decades. Her creations were made from...

Val Holmes Softcover | 20.96 x 1.27 x 27.94 cm | 128 pp Batsford | 2010 | 9781906388751  Embroiderers recycle for many different reasons: to conserve old pieces of ephemera for the future, to give their work a personal touch, to convey meaning, or simply...

Ruth Styles Softcover | 24.3 x 1 x 20.9 cm | 144 pp Ivy Press | 2014 | 9781782400554  Want to know which textile options are the greenest? Worried about workers' rights? Interested in the recycling renaissance and the rise in eco fashion? Look no further.Drawing on...

Sandra Meech Softcover | 21.59 x 1.27 x 27.31 cm | 128 pp Batsford | 2013 | 9781849941112 Award-winning contemporary quilt artist Sandra Meech explains how to harness your own creativity to add innovation and depth to your quilt and embroidery work. In Creative Quilts,...

Guillaume Bounoure & Chloe Genevaux Hardcover | 19.81 x 2.03 x 27.43 cm | 176 pp Gingko Press | 2020 | 9783943330328 Cork: in Architecture, Design, Fashion, and Art showcases the fascinating ways cork can be incorporated in our lives. With sustainability at the forefront of every designer’s...

Rosalind Ormiston & N. M. Wells Hardcover | 27.94 x 2.79 x 28.89 cm | 192 pp Flame Tree | 2019 | 9781787553194 This beautifully illustrated book offers a survey of William Morris' life and work alongside some of his finest decorative work. Morris possessed a multi-faceted...

Maggie Grey Hardcover | 28.6 x 1.9 x 22.2 cm | 128 pp Batsford | 2008 | 9781906388027 This book is about taking an image - a drawing, painting, digital photograph, computer design or photocopy - and, using simple methods, turning it into a piece of...

Serena Dyer Softcover | 15.6 x 1.85 x 23.4 cm | 322 pp Bloomsbury | 2022 | 9781350181021 Fashion travels. Every new shape of sleeve, each novel method of cutting and any innovation in fabric has spread through complex networks of makers, retailers and consumers....

Peter Gravelle Hardcover | 23 x 2.3 x 29.1 cm | 216 pp Carpet Bombing Culture | 2016 | 9781908211415 From the filth and the fury to the elegant extravaganza, Peter Gravelle, the many named photographer, has remained in the shadows of punk rock,...

Hardcover | 17.4 x 1.45 x 24.92 cm | 112 pp Arnoldsche Art Publishers | 2017 | 9783897905139 With her unique artistic installations, Madame Tricot (real name Dominique Kaehler Schweizer) displaces the viewer into an illusory world of knitted delicacies. Her smokehouses, refrigerators, counters...

Gina Wilde  Hardcover | 21.8 x 1.7 x 27.9 cm | 128 pp Potter Craft | 2008 | 9780307393548 Shibori Knits highlights the intersection between shibori and knitting, offering 20 patterns that utilise this transformative technique. Internationally acclaimed knitwear designer Gina Wilde guides knitters through three...

Jo Hambro Hardcover | 23.62 x 1.78 x 29.72 cm | 160 pp Clearview | 2020 | 9781908337412 A polaroid is the physical and organic reminder of a particular moment, enabling the creative team to step back and fully consider the technical and artistic direction...

Hardcover | 22.1 x 2.5 x 28.7 cm | 208 pp Damiani | 2015 | 9788862083706 This books is drawn from a large archive of design work (comprised of 1500 individual items that include some 600 drawings, colour Xeroxes, swatch references and inspirational material) by Stephen...

Mark Paytress Hardcover | 20.32 x 2.79 x 26.67 cm | 304 pp Omnibus Press | 2022 | 9781913172282 This is a triumphant bid to capture lightning in a bottle! Glam came and went in a few short years, but renowned music journalist Mark...

Julia Stelzner Softcover | 16.66 x 1.85 x 24.13 cm | 192 pp Prestel | 2014 | 9783791348858 Written by a style insider, this book explores every aspect of Berlin's love affair with clothing. In an engaging series of brightly illustrated chapters it explains what...

Val Holmes Hardcover | 22.9 x 1 x 30.5 cm | 128 pp Batsford | 2016 | 9781849943444 Beginning with a step-by-step guide to constructing a simple fabric corset, the book goes on to explore more contemporary and experimental approaches to construction, from using...

Thomas Makryniotis Softcover | 24.8 x 1.3 x 24.1 cm | 176 pp Batsford | 2015 | 9781849942935 Digital technologies in fashion are becoming more accessible and now any creative with a basic knowledge of fashion design and computing can create convincing still or animated 3D...