Celebrates the revival of weaving with works by influential and contemporary weavers from around the world - An inspiring book for lovers of textiles, interiors and design.

Lavishly illustrated, this book presents comprehensive entries for each of the tapestries in the Burrell Collection New research by an international team of experts details how, where, when and why these tapestries were made.

Jérôme Chazeix's publication focuses on the participatory practice and the use of textile. Chazeix's work of the last years are contemporary syntheses of the arts («Gesamtkunstwerke») in the combination of different media and their cross-references.

Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel is an icon of fashion, and can lay claim to having invented the look of the 20th century. At the height of the Belle Époque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers,

Visual artist Diana Scherer (1971, DE) is one of the pioneers in bio tech art. Scherer lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she studied fine art at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Her work comprises botany, installations, textile and biotechnology.

"body to book” is an upcycling project that explores the relationship between the human body and books. It comprises six sculptures assembled from coat fragments and books, each covering a naked body. This arrangement invites explorations of sensuality and intimacy and encourages direct interaction with the subject. Through calling us to examine the subtle interactions between the body and the books, it offers new perspectives for artistic, philosophical and personal reflection on matter, media and the human condition.

An encyclopedic guide featuring over seventy established, emerging, and innovative production techniques and over sixty materials used in textile and fashion design
To be truly prized and employable, textile and fashion

While the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century diminished the role of the craftsperson in the manufacturing process, the digital revolution has had a less devastating effect. Today’s digital technologies have given rise to entirely new working methods, skill sets, and consumer products that don’t eliminate, but enrich traditional hand techniques.

Neu - Ein Streifzug durch rund 500 Jahre Modegeschichte im Spiegel der Kunst: Wie haben Künstler auf extreme Erscheinungen wie Schlitzmode, die Schamkapsel, die Krinoline oder den Smoking reagiert Mode ist sowohl ökonomischer Faktor wie Seismograf gesellschaftlicher

Soft Edges, Draw Close presents a body of work by Euphrosyne Andrews that explores how materials and their subsequent associations shape our interactions within space. Architecturally scaled sculptural works are displayed alongside intimate ‘viewing rooms’ in reference to public and private divisions. Schematic drawings for

die publikation zeigt neue werkgruppen von g. b. in den love seats sitzen wir auf einem möbelobjekt & blicken aneinander vorbei. textilbilder & stickereien zeigen kisses in form von lippen ohne person.

Patricia L. Boyd’s book “Ceiling Blues” borrows its format from fabric sample books. It contains photographed fragments of frottages,

Natasza Niedziółka’s fascinating works move along the interface between painting, drawing, and textile art. The canvas constitutes the carrier for her abstract, haptic embroideries.

'Blending the heraldic with the optical, August Krogan-Roley’s Empty Coats each present themselves as a pictorial game.

The motifs produced during time-intensive dyeing processes – which uses indigo, urine, and extracts of natural waste materials – are neither conventional fabric nor lace patterns, and they have only a distant relationship to batik painting. Yet, they are simulations and portraits of both.

Ein wesentliches Charakteristikum von Textilien ist ihr Beziehungsreichtum. Ihre Aktualität und Historizität beziehen sie aus Kunst und Kultur- ebenso wie Medien-, Sozial- und Technikgeschichte, sie repräsentieren Traditionen der angewandten und der bildenden Kunst, changieren zwischen Formalismus und Funktionalismus und vermitteln als Objekte und Verfahrensweise zwischen Selbst- und Weltverhältnissen, affekt- und wissensgesteuerten Prozessen der Aneignung. Aufgrund ihrer mehrfachen Funktion – als Gebrauchsgegenstand und abstrakte (Formen-)Sprache – zeigen sich in Textilien – verstanden als Handlungszusammenhang – spezifische Verflechtungen, die seit der Moderne in zunehmendem Maße die Relationen zwischen Subjekt und Objekt, materieller und immaterieller, künstlerischer und handwerklicher Arbeit sowie kulturellen Austauschverhältnissen transformiert haben.

Joan Sallas, a virtuoso of the fold, has meticulously researched and mastered the history and techniques of the art of the fold. With the banquet table as setting, his expertise and philosophy pour forth in the form of splendid, folded linen.

Als eine im doppelten Wortsinn in Stoffe verliebte Person bewegt sich Monika Pichler in der Szenerie, nicht ohne deren Ruhebettcharakter als wenig herausfordernd zu erleben.

This publication presents a rich selection from the MAK Collection in the field of commercial art and ephemera, spanning from the 18th century to the present day.

Mappamodello, by clothes designer Nanni Strada, contains the models created in 1974 for the competition “Arab-Islamic National Dress” which subsequently became a classic in the collection produced and distributed by the Milanese shop “Oriente e Cina”.