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By Clive Hallett

Fabric For type: the full Guide is the one booklet particularly for type designers to give an explanation for the habit and homes of other materials. style layout is basically made up our minds by means of how the materials paintings, circulate, appear and feel. the main profitable type designers are those that comprehend their fabrics, who fit layout ability with technical knowledge.

This publication bridges that hole by means of delivering a mixture of functional info and vocabulary, visually analyzing well-known textile forms, discussing the features of materials and exhibiting how you can make the most fabrics to push the bounds of design.

With lovely colour pictures that express how style designers, either earlier and current, have labored with materials, the book's top goal is to stimulate inventive exploration of the connection of materials to type

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Above) Hand dyeing fabric in a traditional dye shop in India. This form of hand dyeing is today only used for small dye lots and specialty fabrics. Constant immersion in the liquid dye has permanently discolored the dyer’s hands. Fibers to fabrics (right) Dip-dyed fabric lengths hung up to dry in an Indian workshop. In the developing world, piece-dyed fabrics and special dye treatments such as tie-dye are often processed in small lengths in a similar environment. Garment dyeing Garment dyeing, the dyeing of a ready-made garment, is the least colorfast method of dyeing, but it does give a very specific visual look.

It is created by a series of chain knots and loops, mainly used as lace edging, collars, and doilies. Fabric construction Macramé Macramé is created by the interlinking of knots. It is believed to have Arabic origins, and was used to decorate the excess lengths of yarn along the edge of hand-loom textiles. It was taken to Spain with the Moorish conquest and eventually spread to the rest of Europe, reaching England by the late seventeenth century. It may also classify as a form of lace making. Macramé was a popular pastime among British and American sailors all through the nineteenth century; the preference was for substantial square knots, which they used to make hammocks and belts.

Multicolored batik silk design by textile artist Isabella Whitworth. Here, the batik wax resist technique is expressed in a painterly and free-form approach showing the characteristic “crackle” that occurs when dye seeps into cracks in the cooled wax. Dyeing 34 Stitching and tying Fabrics can be stitched or tied in specific areas to shield them from dye. Variations of these techniques from different cultures include ikat from Indonesia and Malaysia; tie-dye from India; and adire from Africa. Chemical resist A resisting agent is added to the first dye color that is applied.

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