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Up-to-the-minute publications on sourcing and finding and working with the suppliers and materials, worldwide.

Check out the garment sourcing books and textile sourcing books at the sourcing section of the Fashiondex.

Here are a few examples of the types of sourcing books you will find.

The Birnbaum Report/strategic Sourcing for Garment Importers : A monthly electronic newsletter by David Birnbaum, detailing all the news and trends in the international garment industry, to help manufacturers and importers work at the best price and source in the best countries.

Birnbaum's Global Guide To Winning The Great Garment War : The premier book on garment costing, and the ultimate book for all garment industry professionals who want to work and buy at the best price.

Birnbaum's Global Guide To Material Sourcing : The global garment industry is moving from product supplier to service provider. This great, new text by David Birnbaum explains how to source fabric and trims in the post-2005 era. You can no longer depend on how you sourced materials a few years ago, those methods are already antiquated. Is your company on the leading edge, or are you falling behind?

View the apparel industry sourcing books at the Fashiondex online book store for the apparel industry.

Routledge: Routledge publishes academic and professional titles on textiles, apparel production, and supply chain management.

Fairchild Books: Fairchild Books publishes sourcing and production titles for the apparel industry.

Don't forget to visit the fashion library in our fashion industry terminology section.

Below you will find additional fashion industry books of possible interest:

Fashion Directories The number-one collection of fashion industry sourcing and reference material available.

Fashion Design Tools All the best fashion, production, and design inspiration books to make your designing life easier.

Fashion Business The most current books on the business of the fashion trade and running a fashion company.

Technical Books A huge selection of technical know-how publications.

How-To's Red-hot how-to books on all the phases of design and production.

Fashion Dictionaries The finest fashion and related terminology books available.

Garment & Textile Sourcing Up-to-the-minute publications on sourcing and finding and working with the suppliers and materials, worldwide.

Clothes Shopping  Oh where, oh where, should you shop???

Grading Books

Pattern Making Books

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If you are new to the fashion industry or an experienced garmento, reading books about fashion and textiles is one of the best things you can do to stay ahead of the competition.  If you are serious about fashion, it is very important to stay educated regarding all issues regarding fiber to fashion.  Read a book about fabrics, manufacturing, pattern making etc.

Costing: The Heart of the Great Garment War

Birnbaum's Global Guide to Winning the Great Garment War is named here as the premier book on garment costing, and its military title makes the shelf's point: in garment sourcing, price is contested ground. Costing a garment honestly — materials, making, trims, freight, duties and the cost of mistakes — decides whether a style can be bought in one country or must move to another, and whether an order makes money at all. A costing book teaches that arithmetic as a discipline rather than a negotiation habit, which is why it sits at the centre of the sourcing shelf for professionals who work and buy at the best price.

Material Sourcing and a Changing Industry

Birnbaum's Global Guide to Material Sourcing covers the material half of the same problem: sourcing fabric and trims as the global garment industry moves from product supplier to service provider. That shift changes what a buyer is purchasing — less a bale of cloth at a price, more a package of quality, speed, compliance and reliability — and a sourcing book's job is to give buyers the framework to compare offers that are no longer directly comparable on price alone. The Birnbaum Report supports both books as a monthly current-awareness service on the international garment industry's news and trends.

From Sourcing Books to Named Suppliers

Strategy needs addresses. This page links the manufacturer clothing factory directory and the CMT section of Apparel Search, where factories that cut, make and trim garments are listed, and the Fashiondex directories shelf names the printed sourcebooks of suppliers. A productive reading order is: costing and material sourcing first, to know what a good offer looks like; directories second, to find the suppliers; the report's ongoing issues after that, to keep the knowledge current as countries and prices move.