Fashion & Textiles Books

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

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

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

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 1

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 1

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 3

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 3

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 2

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 2

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

Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse

Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse

Making Design Limited Edition

Making Design Limited Edition

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 4

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 4

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

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

Contemporary Muslim Fashions

Contemporary Muslim Fashions

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

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

Pious Fashion book cover featuring a moody editorial photograph of a woman wearing luxurious textiles and head scarf, sipping a cup of tea while sitting on a counter in an amber kitchen. Minimal cover title at the upper right of the cover.

Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress

Book cover featuring a magnified detail of an embroidered textile. Text to the left of the image reads: Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe.

Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe

Yellow rectangular book cover with a faint yellow-gray textile texture. Large text overlaid reads: Knoll Textiles: Nineteenhundredfortyfive – TwoThousandTen

Knoll Textiles: 1945-2010

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

Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion: New Perspectives from Europe and North America

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

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

Dark red book cover featuring a mustard-colored 17th century suit and accessories with descriptions pointing to different parts of the costume. Title text at the top reads How to Read a Suit: A Guide to Chamging Fashion from the 17th to the 20th Century.

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

The Trend Forecaster's Handbook

The Trend Forecaster's Handbook

Universal Materiality: Wearable Interaction Design and Computer Aided Process for Accessible Wearable Solutions

Universal Materiality: Wearable Interaction Design and Computer Aided Process for Accessible Wearable Solutions

The Unknown Wiener WerkstŠtte: Embroidery and Lace

The Unknown Wiener Werkstätte: Embroidery and Lace

Jewelry of Ideas: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection

Jewelry of Ideas: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection

Paisley: A Visual Survey of Pattern and Color Variations

Paisley: A Visual Survey of Pattern and Color Variations

Victorian Paisley Shawls

Victorian Paisley Shawls

Marguerita Mergentime: American Textiles, Modern Ideas

Marguerita Mergentime: American Textiles, Modern Ideas