THE FASHION DESIGNER’S TEXTILE DIRECTORY

Gail Baugh

Quarto Publishing Plc., London, England

Year 2011

Pages 323

This directory is a visual guide to fabric, focused on the way designers are trained to create apparel, rather than on how fabric is produced. This book simultaneously instructs in fabric, while also developing skills for the design room. Unlike many textile books, this text speaks to how a fabric will look on the body. And, for the first time, this directory acknowledges the environmental consequences of a designer’s fabric choice. Each fabric in the directory is accompanied by photographs presented in a way that makes the properties of the fabric come alive for the viewer, allowing understanding how a fabric might behave.