Textile Books

Textile Books and maybe a few fashion & clothing books

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You can find several textile book choices at the Fashiondex website.  The Fashiondex, Apparel Industry Publishers, was started in 1992 by a fashion designer who had arranged her Rolodex into types of fabrics and trims, instead of from A to Z. When she noticed that everyone where she worked was using her Rolodex when they needed to do their research and sourcing needs, she saw there was a need for a similar product. Fashiondex was formed, that Rolodex was reproduced in book form, and several months later the first Fashiondex was produced. They started selling that directory and eventually created and published many other books that their designer, and her industry friends, thought were needed to make their jobs easier.  In 1994, they launched www.fashiondex.com, the first fashion-sourcing website and store.

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

You can also search for Textile Books at Amazon.

Don't forget to visit the fashion library in our fashion industry terminology section.  Fashion libraries typically have books about clothing as well as textiles.

  Macmillan : they are publishers of several textile books such as Felt, Tartan, Carpets and Textiles, Fashion & Textiles, Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress, and others.  Macmillan in the US is a group of publishing companies in the United States held by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, which is based in Stuttgart, Germany. Their American publishers include Farrar Straus and Giroux, Henry Holt & Company, W.H. Freeman and Worth Publishers, Palgrave Macmillan, Bedford/st. Martin's, Picador, Roaring Brook Press, St. Martin's Press, Tor Books, and Bedford Freeman & Worth Publishing Group. For information on these companies, please see the below.

  Palgrave : They have books such as The Textile Book.  Woven, printed, embroidered, knitted - textiles are pivotal to the everyday experience of people in all parts of the world. This wide-ranging and informative book conveys the excitement and new challenges textiles represent and is essential reading for anyone working with, studying or simply interested in textiles.  Palgrave Macmillan was formed when St. Martin's Press Scholarly and Reference and Macmillan Press (UK) united their worldwide publishing operations. The history of the company, located in the historic Flatiron Building in New York City, begins with the founding of its parent company, Macmillan Publishers Limited, in England, by Daniel and Alexander Macmillan in 1843. Macmillan opened an office in New York in the late 1860s, that was later sold becoming what is now Macmillan USA. After the sale, Macmillan realized the importance of having a publishing arm in the United States. In 1952 St. Martin's Press was formed, named after the street that housed the Macmillan headquarters in London. St. Martin's Press is one of the ten largest general publishers in the United States and is an important publisher of college, trade, mass market, and scholarly titles. The scholarly imprint of St. Martin's Press became what is known today as Palgrave.

  The Textile Institute (United Kingdom) :  The mission of The Textile Institute is to promote professionalism in all areas associated with the textile industries worldwide. It is an association of men and women throughout the world which unites those with an interest in textiles. The individual professional expertise of members is diverse: it includes management, art, design, fashion, economics, science, engineering, research, production, marketing, selling, retailing, education and training.  They also have a textile book store with some very informative textile books such as textile text books.

Schiffer Publishing: Schiffer Publishing is an independent, family-owned book publisher founded in 1974 whose online store sells thousands of titles, including many on fashion, textiles, costume, and design.

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Also, you can check out the Fashiondex Books section here at Apparel Search.

In addition to reading books about textiles and fabrics, you may have interest in various fashion magazines.  You can find a very good selection at our new Apparel Magazine web site.

Apparel Books & Fashion Books Search Engines

Fashion Model Books

Career Guide Books - fashion careers

Guides to Fashion Industry

Salesman Buyer Guides

If you do not like to read fashion books, or simply do not know how to read, you may have interest in Fashion Movies.

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Publishers of Textile Books

The publishers named here show the range of textile publishing. Macmillan's textile list includes Felt, Tartan, Carpets and Textiles, Fashion & Textiles and Encounters with Textiles — titles that treat textiles as material culture and history as much as technology. Schiffer Publishing, an independent, family-owned publisher founded in 1974, sells thousands of titles including many on fashion, textiles, costume and design, serving collectors and specialists as well as students. St. Martin's Press, formed in 1952 as Macmillan's United States arm and named after the street that housed the Macmillan headquarters in London, became one of the ten largest general publishers in the United States and an important publisher of college, trade, mass market and scholarly titles, with its scholarly imprint becoming Palgrave. A reader of textile books will meet all three kinds of house: the academic, the specialist and the general publisher with a scholarly arm.

The Textile Institute and Professional Textbooks

The Textile Institute, in the United Kingdom, brings the professional body's perspective: its mission is to promote professionalism in all areas associated with the textile industries worldwide, uniting men and women with an interest in textiles whose expertise spans management, art, design, fashion, economics, science, engineering, research, production, marketing, selling, retailing, education and training. Its book store stocks informative textile books such as textile textbooks — the structured titles used in textile education. For a student of fibres and fabrics, the Institute's shelf is the counterpart of the fashion publishers' shelves elsewhere in this section: same seriousness, aimed at the material science and technology side of the trade.

Textile Books Within Fashion Reading

Textile knowledge underpins every other shelf in this books section. Pattern making assumes fabric behaviour; sourcing is largely the buying of textiles; quality assurance begins with fibre and fabric testing. That is why this page links the fabric and textiles sections of the main site alongside the book stores, and why the Fashiondex advice quoted across these pages — stay educated regarding fibres to fashion — begins with fibres. A reader building a fashion library in order could reasonably start here, with one sound textile textbook, before moving to the making, buying and selling shelves.