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Fragile Fabrics (23) NEW!
Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
Pub. Double Trouble
Price £7.50 paperback
This book demonstrates innovative approaches to creating delicate and unique fabrics using a variety of techniques and design sources. Jan and Jean look at spiders webs, hedgerows, mosaic floors and flowers and work with sheer and soluble farics, beads of glue, embellishing (needle punch) machines, thermofax screens and hand-stitched lace.

Classic and Modern Fabrics - the complete illustrated sourcebook NEW!
Janet Wilson
Pub. Thames & Hudson
Price £42.00 hardback
PUBLICATION DATE - APRIL 2010. More than 600 fabrics and 700 colour illustrations - this is an authoritative, accessible, and definitive guide to all the textiles available today. From the earliest weaves uncovered by archaeologists to today's machine produced, scientifically advanced fabrics, textiles have had a profound influence on civilization. This encyclopaedia is a definitive reference guide to all the major types of fabric in circulation today, from abbot cloth to zibeline. In clear and engaging language, the author describes and illustrates more than 600 of the most important examples, from classic tweeds to state-of-the-art nano fabrics. Each entry includes a brief definition, informative notes on structure, and a list of uses. More than 700 color illustrations show a fabric's weave, texture, and other defining characteristics at a glance, and helpful diagrams demonstrate the structure of the most important types of textiles. The book concentrates on textiles in current use, but it also covers obscure or obsolete terms that one might come across - and that might still have something to teach today's designers, manufacturers, and textile historians. Janet Wilson is an associate lecturer at the London College of Fashion. She has worked as a textile designer and continues to design fabrics on a freelance basis.

Shirley Craven and Hull Traders Revolutionary Fabrics & Furniture 1957-1980 NEW!
Lesley Jackson
Pub. ACC Distribution
Price £25.00 paperback
Big bold abstracts in eye-popping colours, Shirley Craven's extra-ordinary textiles encapsulate the exuberance of the Swinging Sixties. This ground-breaking book celebrates her remarkable creative partnership with Hull Traders, the Company who printed her designs. Ranging from Abstract Expressionism to Op Art, Hull Traders' textiles were electic, visionary and avant garde. The book highlights the galaxy of artists who collaborated with Hull Traders, forty in total, including Edward Paolozzi and Nigel Henderson, Ivon Hitchens, Doreen Dyall, Peter McCulloch and Althea McNish. It also tells the fascinating story of Bernard Holdaway's revolutionary tomotum furniture, an icon of the pop era, made from giant cardboard tubes. Based on new research by writer and curator Lesley Jackson, a leading authority on post war design, this book features stunning new colour images and rare archive photographs.