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34 | Weaving & Tapestry | FIBER & TEXTILES Designer Fabrics of the Early ‘60s. Tina Skinner. From top couture fabric design hous- es of Paris during the early 1960s, this visual feast explores a multitude of styles ranging from playful geometrics to novelty prints and from abstract experimentation to increasing- ly far-out florals. A special section explores upholstery and household fabrics of the era • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215mm) • 255 color photos • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-0506-1 • PB • $19.95 / £18.99 / 28.95 CAD Dots: A Pictorial Essay on Pointed, Printed Patterns. Tina Skinner. Dots of great variety, in all their minuscule glory, are depicted on historic fabric. An invaluable encyclopedia of dotty design ideas • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 540 color photos • 112 pp. •978-0-7643-0634-1•PB•$24.95 / £22.99 / 34.95 CAD Fabulous Barkcloth: Home Decorating Textiles from the ’30s, ’40s, & ’50s. Loretta Smith Fehling. Barkcloth is a dense, textured cotton weave and was often used in draperies and slipcovers. Patterns, colors, and floral motifs are illustrated as used on authentic barkcloth • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 215 color photos • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-0837-6 • PB • $24.95 / £22.99 / 34.95 CAD Fashion Fabrics: 1960s. Leslie Piña & Constance Korosec. Fabric colors, patterns, textures, and fibers reveal a culture. In the 1960s, traditional plaids became popular at the same time as bold prints and geometrics, notably Op Art and “psychedelic” pat- terns. Close-up color with informative captions and index. • 81/2"x11" (215x279mm) •579color photos •176pp. •978-0-7643-0584-9•PB•$29.95 / £27.99 / 42.95 CAD Flower Power: Prints from the 1960s. Tina Skinner. All the orange, hot pink, and sky blue the era’s most fertile imaginations could conjure. Featured are more than 300 striking swatches from top couture houses in Paris and Milan, bold flower prints on silk, cotton, and the acetates and polyesters that helped shape fashion’s most eye-popping era • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215mm) • 313 color photos • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-0675-4 • PB • $19.95 / £18.99 / 28.95 CAD Tartans: MacNichol to Yukon. • 11"x81/2" (279x215mm) •400color photos • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-1029-4 • PB • $24.95 / £22.99 / 34.95 CAD Tartans: Frederickton to MacNeil. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • over 400 color photos • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-0962-5 • PB • $24.95 / £22.99 / 34.95 CAD The Synthetic ’70s: Fabric of the Decade. Leslie Piña & Constance Korosec. Experience an era through bold prints, geometric patterns, and “psy- chedelic” colors on polyester and stretch knits. Vivid close-up color photographs, informative cap- tions, a glossary, and an index. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 261 color photos • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643- 0717-1 • PB • $24.95 / £22.99 / 34.95 CAD Centuries old, tartan is the very fabric of Scotland. These three volumes provide over 400 colorful and vividly striped tartans each, plus brief historical background, definitions of related terms, and (for the tartan weaver) thread counts. By William H. Johnston & Philip D. Smith Jr. Tartans: Abbotsford to Fraser. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • over 400 color photos • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-0961-8 • PB • $24.95 / £22.99 / 34.95 CAD Vintage Children’s Fabrics. Kay Hanauer. Relive childhood memories through this collection of vintage children’s fabric. Chapters highlight similar themes with displays of letters and number block and prog- ress through various childhood points of interest. Collectors, designers, and fabric buffs will find this an invaluable resource • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 500 color images • 144 pp. • 978-0-7643-3855-7 • PB • $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD Vintage Textured Barkcloth. Margaret Meier. Barkcloth was the textile of choice for window treatments and other household textiles of the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s. This book explores its scintillating combination of pattern, texture, and color in nearly 300 full-color photos and in-depth text • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 290 color photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-2663-9•PB•$29.95 / £27.99 / 42.95CAD WEAVING & TAPESTRY 3-D Hand Loom Weaving: Sculptural Tools and Techniques. Sally Eyring, Foreword by Stacey Harvey-Brown. For the first time, weavers have the tools and techniques to weave the 3-D shapes they want—on an ordinary hand loom! Explains how to weave three-dimensional shapes, using processes and tools that are easy to fashion at home and lead weavers to sculptural forms. • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 260 color images and diagrams • 192 pp. • 978- 0-7643-5990-3•HCw/ spiral •$45.00 / £40.99 / 64.00 CAD Foulards: A Picture Book of Prints for Men’s Wear. Tina Skinner. More than 350 photographs of historic fabric swatches explore design variations in foulards, the small motifs printed on silks and related fabrics that were intended for men’s ties and dressing gowns • 11"x81/2" (279x215mm) •357 color photos • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-1256-4 • PB • $24.95 / £22.99 / 34.95 CAD Fun Fabrics of the ’50s. Joy Shih. This book will transport you back to the days of shirt plaids, cowboy heroes’ flannel pajamas, ear- ly American rec room drapery, splashy lounge chair tropical blooms, housewives’ duster florals, and festive south of the border kitch- en curtains • 11"x81/2" (279x215mm) •300 color photos • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-0173-5 • PB • $19.95 / £18.99 / 28.95 CAD Funky Fabrics of the ’60s. Joy Shih. The wide range of sixties fabric designs reflected the transition from the comforting tranquility of the early years to the bolder, more “hip” end of the decade. A nostalgic tour of pastel and splashy florals, patchwork calicos, denims and stripes, wild abstract geometrics, and neon paisleys • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 250+ color photos • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-0174-2 • PB • $19.95 / £18.99 / 28.95 CAD Metallic Textile Designs. Tina Skinner. They’re hot, they’re shiny, and they’re oh-so-glamorous. This book revisits metallic’s past, with historic fabric swatches from Europe and Japan dating back to the 1950s, and takes us to today’s top European couture houses in a visual exploration of metallics’ allure • 11" x 81/2" (279 x 215mm) •237 color photos • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-0635-8 • PB • $19.95 / £18.99 / 28.95 CAD Naturally ’70s Fabric. Constance Korosec & Leslie Piña. Bold and dizzying complementary color patterns dominated the 1970s, displayed on two general groups of textile: the naturals and the syn- thetics. This book presents a sampling of silks, cotton, flax, and wool with solid, stripe, plaid, geo- metric, floral, and paisley prints. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 275 color photos • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643- 1030-0 • PB • $24.95 / £22.99 / 34.95 CAD Stripes: A Survey of Fabric Designs. Tina Skin- ner. A zigzag tour through seventy years of stripes. Historic fabric swatches from all over the world. Woven-in and imitation weaves, wavy lines, to prim and proper pin stripes. The largest photo album of striped textiles ever • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 557 color photos • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-0482-8 • PB • $24.95 / £22.99 / 34.95 CAD Paisley: A Visual Survey of Pattern and Color Variations. Tina Skinner. Organized into a sweep- ing visual survey including orderly foulard patterns, elaborate borders, experimental media, and ornate florals of printed and woven fabrics alike • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 561 color photos • 112 pp. • 978- 0-7643-0546-7 • PB • $24.95 / £22.99 / 34.95 CAD Plaids: A Visual Survey of Pattern Variations. Tina Skinner. More than five decades of twentieth century plaids. Photographs of actual printed and woven textiles. A sweeping survey of plaids, from the standard checks and ginghams, to the furthest reaches of designers’ imaginations • 81/2"x11" (215 x 279 mm) • 558 color photos • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643- 0481-1 • PB • $24.95 / £22.99 / 34.95 CAD Terry Cloth. Monique Combes. This book— the first devoted specifically to terry cloth— contains more than 500 images that trace the fabric from its origins to modern fashion. Vintage advertisements, sewing patterns, apparel, and design fabrics showcase styles from dainty florals to fabulous geometrics, especially from the 1950s to the 1970s • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 481 color & 25 b/w images • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643- 4185-4 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD