fabrics

For readers who may be more interested in fashion than in math, this book highlights how math is useful and necessary for designing clothes, purchasing materials, sewing, and altering clothes, and running a fashion business.

Outlines the skills needed to be a costume designer, and what the designer does during and after the performance.

Discusses a number of inventions related to fashion.

When the Endangered Animal Fund contacts Blythe to design a fashion line, she wants it to be extra special. After all, the proceeds are going toward a very worthy cause! So Blythe asks Minka to paint the patterns for her exclusive fabric, but it's not long before the normally chipper monkey feels the pressure.

Provides instructions for making masks, toys, collages, and other projects out of cloth.

"In this celebration of the joy of giving, one snowy Christmas Eve, a king buys some soft, red cloth to make the perfect Christmas gift for his daughter. Little does he know that the left-over cloth will be used to make presents for many more of the kingdom's inhabitants, right down to the last teeny bit of cloth which is made into a scarf just right for a mouse"--Provided by publisher.

Everyone enjoys Dan's funny-looking pants, which his wife makes from the bright fabrics Dan sells. Includes photographs of different types of fabric.

Traces the history of textiles from the earliest needles of twenty-five thousand years ago to the techno textiles of the twenty-first century, discussing how they have been fundamental to human existence.