Review
'Informative and elucidating ... marks a turning point in contemporary textiles' --Norwich School of Art and Design
'A brilliant book for fashion students, artists, textile designers and anyone concerned with the materials we use to shape out lives and the world around us ... revolutionary' --Sewing World
'Great for ideas, it could just help the fabric revival along' --idFX
'Stimulating and absorbing ... a superb source of reference for the potential of this technology to influence the rapidly expanding field of fashion clothing'
--The Times Educational Supplement
'A brilliant book for fashion students, artists, textile designers and anyone concerned with the materials we use to shape out lives and the world around us ... revolutionary' --Sewing World
'Great for ideas, it could just help the fabric revival along' --idFX
'Stimulating and absorbing ... a superb source of reference for the potential of this technology to influence the rapidly expanding field of fashion clothing'
--The Times Educational Supplement
Product Description
Here is the key book on the key materials in art, design and shaping the environment in the 21st century. Building on the cult success of Techno Textiles, this book, newly available in paperback, features developments over the past decade. Highlighting advanced textiles in production and available to the designer, artist, architect and consumer today, it will be required reading for professionals, fashion and design aficionados and anyone prepared to be stimulated by and informed about the environment in which we now live.
About the Author
Sarah E. Braddock Clarke is a freelance lecturer, curator, researcher and writer specializing in textiles and their applications to fashion, design and the fine arts. She co-wrote SportsTech with Marie O'Mahony, who is a textile and technology consultant for organizations throughout Europe and the United States. O'Mahony is the author of Cyborg: The Man Machine, published by Thames & Hudson in 2002.
