the essential guide to choosing and using fabric for sewing
Willard, Dana
2012
Provides descriptions of the unique characteristics, strengths, limitations, and challenges of more than one hundred fabrics, from dotted swiss to faux fur.
a guide to fabrics' properties, characteristics, and garment-design potential
Baugh, Gail
2011
Provides information about the properties, characteristics, and garment potential of natural-fiber textiles and manmade fabrics; discusses responsible fashion design and terminology; and includes charts.
Providing a mix of practical information and the industry vocabulary, this reference book will help students gain a clear understanding of how to work with fabrics as an integral component of the fashion design process.
Getting tired of wearing the same old accessories over and over again? There's an easy and inexpensive fix for that. Try making some new headbands, scarves, or jewelry with just a few pieces of fabric or by refreshing some stuff you already have. Don't know how to sew? That's no problem. Each activity in this book provides easy step-by-step instructions to make your own accessories without ever having to pick up a needle and thread.
Contains an episode of the television program "How It's Made," with behind-the-scenes footage that reveals the construction methods and materials used to create nails and staples, safety glasses, fabrics, and bicycles.