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

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

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 1

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 1

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

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

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.

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

Book cover with woven pink textile surrounding a gold zig zag diamond title field

Woven Textile Design

Contemporary Muslim Fashions

Contemporary Muslim Fashions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 slate gray black and yellow linked dot pattern along the right and a vertically aligned title on the left

Marimekko: In Patterns

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

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

Knoll Textiles: 1945-2010

Bright yellow book cover with diecut sans serif letters showing yellow fiber pattern and print below spelling out book title

Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance

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

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

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

White book cover juxtaposing a drawing of a cherry blossom branch with a jewel-encrusted bracelet with a cherry blossom motif

Asia Imagined: In the Baur and Cartier Collections

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

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

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

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

Black book cover with finely composed white lace composition of a head with a fan like ornament at the bottom

The Unknown Wiener Werkstätte: Embroidery and Lace

White book cover with white title in large yellow block

Untitled: Thomas Gentille American Jeweler

Book cover with seemingly underwater scene with tentacles encroaching into the frame over a soccer ball

David Bielander: Twenty Years

White book cover with large pocketed planet like sphere overlaid with a giant vertically stretched booktitle "Bron" which is Dutch for "source"

Ruudt Peters: Source

Book cover with abstractly painted shapes in greens, yellows, and pinks. Title in center with pink and green outlined letters

Doris Betz: Jewellery and Drawing

Black book cover with translucent gray arrows layered and pointing in all directions with four arrows that are colorful pointing to the center

Contemporary Jewellery in Context

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