Fashion & Textiles Books

Selection of publications on historic and contemporary fashion, textiles, and jewelry design.

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Made by Rain Book; black cover with a few small splashes of white and smaller off-white booklet layered over, with the title in blue [travelling concept #1 booklet]

Made by Rain Book

Rectangular book cover featuring a photograph of three fashion models. The two on the right wear oversized garments and headpieces with dramatic makeup while the model on the left wears graphic black-and-white fabric and sunglasses. Overlaid in white is the text "Willi Smith: Street Couture."

Willi Smith: Street Couture

White book cover gridded with circles showing various textile design patterns from history and title information in the middle

Textile Designs: Two Hundred Years of European and American Patterns Organized by Motif, Style, Color, Layout, and Period

Magazine cover with woven pieces of blue fabric with fraying edges. Magazine title in red and white font with issue title in jumbled font below

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 1

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 3

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 2

Pink book cover with white borders. "Making Design" in white san serif font on thick spine and "210,000" and "1145" on front cover

Making Design Limited Edition

African Apparel book cover featuring a photograph of an intricate beaded textile with the title centered in a green rectangle.

African Apparel: Threaded Transformations across the 20th Century

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 4

Book cover showing gold and silver metalwork of a classical figure with art deco ornamentation. Title vertically rotated in sans serf font in navy blue field to the left

The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s

Light gray book cover showing five strips of cream fabric vertically lined each demonstrating a different stitch in muted thread colors

The Geometry of Hand-Sewing

Dark blue book cover with photograph of a figure wearing ornately patterned and embroidered dress and headcovering. Title overlaid in white modern font

Contemporary Muslim Fashions

White book cover covered in words in thick gold letters with the title in one of the rows in black. A red white and black sneaker is shown in the center

Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture

White, rectangular book cover featuring a striped, color blocked, textile cropped off the upper left corner. Text at the bottom right reads: Anni Albers.

Small book cover featuring a street-style photograph of a woman wearing stilettos, ripped jeans, a long coat with brocade detail, and a floral hijab. A white line border frames her. Text overlaid reads: Modest Street Fashion Vol. 1.

Modest Street Fashion

A bright blue book cover with a silhouette of a woman in a ball gown placed at the center. There is text at the top left of the cover that reads 'THE FASHION BOOK'. The word FASHION as well as the silhouette of the woman are both a very bright blue.

The Fashion Book

Square book cover featuring a photograph of a woman wearing yellow shoes and a yellow head scarf, walking in front of a vibrant blue corrugated wall. Text overlaid reads: Tehran Streetstyle.

Tehran Streetstyle

Book cover featuring a magnified detail of an embroidered textile. Title in black serif letters in white field to the left

Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe

Salmon book cover with light pink illustrated title over a blue fabric swatch pierced by a sky blue needle trailing yellow thread

Wear, Repair, Repurpose: A Maker's guide to Mending and Upcycling Clothes

Book cover with foral pattern background and gilded floral pattern overlaid foreground. Title in black italicized font in upper right

The World of Ornament

Gift wrap book cover with numerous fashion illustrations from the 1920s on a cream colored background and a title information in a horizontal band across the middle with art deco font

1920s Fashion Gift and Creative Paper Book

Book cover with a vibrant orange and magenta floral pattern, white and yellow san serif title at top and a navy spine

A Colorful Life: Gere Kavanaugh, Designer

Book cover featuring an image a working fashion studio including 3 bare mannequins, one in focus and the other two not as much; black lines on mannequins suggest plans for a design. The image has a color tint which closely resembles Tiffany Blue. Title in white.

Fashion Design: A Guide to the Industry and the Creative Process

Fashion Tribes book cover featuring a photograph of three people in unique outfits and hats in front of barbed wire and a brick wall.

Fashion Tribes: Global Street Style

Connecting Afro Futures book cover with bold text against a pale, gray-blue background, with a black line illustration of a person with a sculptural hair style at the bottom of the page.

Connecting Afro Futures: Fashion x Hair x Design

Dark red book cover featuring a mustard-colored 17th century suit and accessories with descriptions pointing to different parts of the costume

How to Read a Suit: A Guide to Changing Men's Fasion from the 17th to the 20th Century

Target: 20 Years of Design for All

Book cover showing embroidered textile with blue black and reddish pink pattern forms with the word "KANTHA" in blue serif letters

Book cover with orange and rad paisley pattern overlaid with title cut out of a transparent white field

Paisley: A Visual Survey of Pattern and Color Variations

Book cover features an image of skyscrapers looking up to the sky, Book cover features an iridescent texture similar to the oil films on water or soap bubbles. White stripe on the right edge includes the title, subtitle, and the author's name in purple font.

Glitterworlds: The Future Politics of a Ubiquitous Thing

Indigo: The Color that Changed the World cover in indigo blue with white lace dye detailing at the top and bottom of the cover. Indigo is printed in all caps in white and is centrally located on the cover. The Color that Changed the World is printed in smaller capitalized text underneath.

Indigo: The Color that Changed the World

Book cover featuring a gridded collage, set at an angle, of floral patterns, framing a black and white photo of a woman in a sun hat blowing a kiss to camera. An opaque pink rectangle with white title text is overlaid at center.

Suzie Zuzek for Lilly Pulitzer: The Artist Behind an Iconic American Fashion Brand, 1962-1985

Fabric for Fashion: The Complete Guide

Book cover featuring a photograph of an accessorized woman in a pink power suit, wearing hijab. Yellow text overlaid reads: "Modesty A Fashion Paradox"

Modesty: A Fashion Paradox

Cover image with detail of fabric showing floral patterns in diagonal lines primarily in pink and blue with "Batik" title in bold red.

Batik: Traditional Textiles of Indonesia

Book cover features a vintage black and white portrait of a woman in a black top and a headpiece decorated with metallic sequins. Yellow, orange, and red thread embroidery highlights her face with a geometric pattern. The book title is placed at the bottom of the cover in two lines.

From Thread to Needle: Contemporary Embroidery Art

Book cover featuring a vibrant yellow background and 4 light grey colored lines that create two small grids. overlayering the background are twelve different black and yellow images of textiles patterns, clothing, and people wearing the clothing. The book title is centered at the top and continued at the bottom center of the book.

Unfolding Fashion Tech: Pioneers of Bright Futures

Muslim Fashion book cover featuring a photograph of two women wearing denim and carrying large purses, one wearing a turban and one wearing a hijab, laughing as they crossing a street. Title in a blue band across the bottom of the cover.

Muslim Fashion: Contemporary Style Cultures

White book cover with a black lacquered box encrusted with jewels in the form of an image of a black panther among trees. Title in thin magenta sans serif letters to the right

Jeweled Splendors of the Art Deco Era: The Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan Collection

Cream colored book cover with aqua spine. Title information in black serif font partially italicized with subtitle in small white print interlaced between every line

The Trend Forecaster's Handbook

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