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The Wardle Family and Its Circle: Textile Production in the Arts and Crafts Era

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Report copyright infringementby Brenda M. King (Author)LONGLISTED for the Arnold Bennett Society Book Prize 2020 This book is a richly illustrated history of the Wardle family of Leek, Staffordshire, which rose to prominence in fine textile production in the second half ofthe nineteenth century. At its core is an object-centred exploration revealing how an entrepreneurial family responded to complex international factors. Beautiful dyed, printed and embroidered textiles were created in Leek ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexander Vasiliev (Author), James Womack (Translator)Children's Fashion of the Russian Empire is a book of photographs that has been compiled by the famous Russian fashion historian Alexandre Vassiliev. The book is all about children's clothing and fashion in Russia in the age of the Tsars, from the 1860s to 1917.Presented in the form of an antique photo-album and featuring over 400 photographs from the author's private collection, Children's Fashion of the Ru...

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Report copyright infringementby David Rowe (Author)Enter, stranger! David Rowe is the man behind the artwork of much-loved TV show Knightmare. During the 1980s and into the early 1990s, it was the dream of children up and down the country to place the Helmet of Justice upon their head, and make their way into Knightmare Castle as an intrepid dungeoneer. The success of the show very much relied on the incredible visual style, along with its pioneering use of computer technology. This fantastic...

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Report copyright infringementby J. Bruce Jones (Author)The Self-Publishing Manual, Create and Publish Your Own Print and e-Book. Written by J. Bruce Jones, the author of over 40 published books. Holding your own book in your hands is a powerful feeling. Sometimes even transformative. Something we can all do now. The tools are here. But where do you start and what do you do? How do you publish your book? The Self-Publishing Manual takes you through the process from beginning to end. It answers...

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Report copyright infringementby Ali Akbar (Author), Zico Pratama Putra (Author)The objective of this book is to provide you with extensive knowledge of AutoCAD, whether you are taking an instructor-led course or learning on your own. AutoCAD 2019 From Zero to Hero is an ideal reference guide, unlike tutorial-oriented books where specific information is hard to found. This book helps you become an AutoCAD expert and has been fully updated to cover all of the AutoCAD′s new capabilities. This in...

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Report copyright infringementby Puggy Pug Life (Author)Perfect gift idea with a trendy design for any student. Teachers and students prefer their school supplies to be extraordinary and not boring. Great addition to any book bag or backpack. 120 pages. Perfect for - travel journals, writing down recipes, memory books, taking notes, sketchbook, home schooling, math and scientific formula, writing stationery, to do lists, diary, planning and organizing, inspirations and journals. Art: drawing b...

Book Cover Design Formula: Create Book Covers That Captivate Readers: Complete DIY Book Cover Design Guide for Self-published and Indie Authors

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Report copyright infringementby Anita Nipane (Author)A comprehensive do-it-yourself guide to creating book cover design for indie and self-published authors. You, too, can create excellent book covers and apply the same techniques that graphic designers use. If you are a self-publishing author and are starting out on a very low budget, a homemade, DIY book cover is a practical solution. Unless you make an appalling one, it won't hurt your sales. And after reading this book, it shouldn't be th...

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Report copyright infringementby Inspired Notebooks (Author)This softcover notebook provides the perfect platform for you to practice your lettering skills. The dot grid pages are ready and waiting to be filled with beautiful calligraphy Dimensions: 8.5 x 11" . Perfect for Writing: 100 pgs with high quality lined paper and white background. Perfect for gifts: Surprise your loved ones with a different notebook. Number of Pages: 104 Dimensions: 0.22 x 11.02 x 8.5 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Lark Designs (Author)Isometric Graph Paper Book to Draw 3D Shapes: 140 Pages Large 8.5 inch by 11 inch SizeOur isometric paper notebook is printed with a grid of equilateral triangles (each measuring .28"). It is invaluable for any kind of three dimensional design including architecture, landscaping or sculpture. Some artists enjoy using it to draw puzzles or complex or labyrinthine 3D images with boxes and staircases. It has become particularly popular for pla...

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Report copyright infringementby Leopoldo Valenzuela (Author), Leo Valenzuela (Illustrator)There is no available information at this time. Author will provide once available. Number of Pages: 186 Dimensions: 0.48 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: April 29, 2019

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Report copyright infringementby Simon Loxley (Author)Type is the bridge between writer and reader, between thought and understanding. Type is the message bearer: an art-form that impinges upon every literate being and yet for most of its history it has conformed to the old adage that 'good typography should be invisible', it should not distract with its own personality. It was only at the end of the nineteenth century that designers slowly realised that they could say as much with their lette...

Fashion as Photograph: Viewing and Reviewing Images of Fashion

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Report copyright infringementby Eugenie Shinkle (Editor)Photographic images are a driving force behind the fashion system, and they play a key role in defining global fashion culture. Fashion photography is attracting increasing public attention; it has embraced new image-making technologies, and has shown itself to be a commercially and ideologically powerful medium.This rich and rewarding book combines new critical approaches with views from inside the industry, showing fashion photography ...

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Report copyright infringementby Caroline Evans (Editor), Christopher Breward (Editor)If fashion is an expression of individuality, why do we all dress alike? Can modernity be described as the experience of 'feeling modern' and, if so, what part does fashion play? Answering these intriguing questions and many more, this pioneering book shows how the concepts of fashion and modernity are intimately linked. It argues that capitalism and identity construction as social processes both have symbiot...

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia Cunningham (Editor), Linda Welters (Editor), Joanne B. Eicher (Editor)Americans began the twentieth century standing in Europe's sartorial shadow, yet ended by outfitting the world in blue jeans, T-shirts and sneakers. How did this come about? What changes in American culture were reflected in fashion? What role did popular culture play?This important overview of American fashion in the twentieth century considers how Americans went from imitating Brit...

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Report copyright infringementby Robin Netherton (Editor), Gale R. Owen-Crocker (Editor), Carla Tilghman (Contribution by)The study of medieval clothing and textiles has aroused great attention in recent years, as part of the growing concern in material culture as a whole; apart from its own intrinsic interest, it has much to reveal about life at the time. This exciting new series aims to offer all those interested in the subject the fruits of the best research in the area. Interdisciplinary i...

Dress Sense: Emotional and Sensory Experiences of the Body and Clothes

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Report copyright infringementby Donald Clay Johnson (Editor), Helen Bradley Foster (Editor)Dress Sense explores the importance of the senses and emotions in the way people dress, and how they attach value and significance to clothing. Inspired by the work of Joanne B. Eicher, contributors offer different multi-disciplinary perspectives on this key and unexplored topic in dress and sensory anthropology. The essays present historical, contemporary and global views, from British imperial dress i...

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Report copyright infringementby Francis Grew (Author), Margrethe de Neergaard (Author), Susan Mitford (Author)The best scholarship focused on shoes and everyday dress accessories from the Middle Ages. Indispensable. SPECULUM Until recently, very little was known about medieval shoes. Glimpses in manuscript illustrations and on funerary monuments, with the occasional reference by a contemporary writer, was all that the costume historian had as evidence, not least because leather tends to peris...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan J. Vincent (Author)Clothes take the ordinary human body and fashion it into something remarkable. Born to the same anatomical legacy, each generation has used garments to shape itself in the image of its own particular desires. Taking different body parts in turn, The Anatomy of Fashion invites us to view ourselves as we have been in the past. Arguing that analysis needs to aspire to the proliferation and playfulness of fashion itself, the chapters both e...

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Report copyright infringementby Juanjuan Wu (Author), Joanne B. Eicher (Editor)How has fashion mirrored the social and cultural changes that have taken place in modern China? To what extent has fashion contributed to those changes? This book provides the first comprehensive account of modern Chinese fashion from 1978 to the present day. The post-Mao era witnessed the birth of the Chinese market economy, the reawakening of Chinese fashion, and the rejuvenation of Chinese society. The program o...

Dress Behind Bars: Prison Clothing as Criminality

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Report copyright infringementby Juliet Ash (Author)From nineteenth-century broad arrows and black and white stripes to twenty first-century orange jumpsuits, prison clothing has both mirrored and bolstered the power of penal institutions over prisoners' lives. Vividly illustrated and based on original research, including throughout the voices of the incarcerated, this book is a pioneering history and investigation of prison dress, which demystifies the experience of what it is like to be an i...

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Report copyright infringementby Toby Slade (Author)Japanese Fashion examines the entire sweep of Japanese clothing history, from the sophisticated fashion systems of late-Edo period kimonos to the present day, providing possible theories of how Japan made this fashion journey and linking current theories of fashion to the Japanese example.The book is unique in that it provides the first full history of the last 200 years of Japanese clothing. It is also the first book to include Asian fashion...

Interior Design: A Critical Introduction

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Report copyright infringementby Clive Edwards (Author)The practice of interior design has become ever more specialised as new technologies have expanded how designers can use light, space, colour and decoration. At the same time, the study of the interior - private, public and corporate - has become a complex field. Interior design is now a rich and sophisticated discipline which draws on many others: psychology, cultural theory, philosophy, gender studies, anthropology, and history, as well ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ingrid Loschek (Author)When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. It is also a business relying on an intricate network of manufacture, marketing and retail. Fashion is both medium and message but it does not explain itself. It requires language and images for its global mediation. It develops from the prescience of the designer and is depen...

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Report copyright infringementby Julia Gaimster (Author)The ability to analyze and interpret visual information is essential in fashion. However, students tend to struggle with the concept of visual research, as well as with the application of that research. Visual Research Methods in Fashion provides students with techniques, tools and inspiration to master their visual research skills and make the research that they undertake more effective. Illustrated with real-life examples from practitio...

Fashion and Age: Dress, the Body and Later Life

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Report copyright infringementby Julia Twigg (Author)Throughout history certain forms and styles of dress have been deemed appropriate - or more significantly, inappropriate - for people as they age. Older women in particular have long been subject to social pressure to tone down, to adopt self-effacing, covered-up styles. But increasingly there are signs of change, as older women aspire to younger, more mainstream, styles, and retailers realize the potential of the 'grey market'. Fashion and ...

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Geczy (Editor), Vicki Karaminas (Editor)For at least two centuries, fashion and art have maintained a competitive love-hate relationship. Both fashion and art construct imaginary worlds, and use a language of style to invigorate beliefs, perceptions and ideas. Until now the crossovers of fashion and art have received only scattered treatment and suffered from a dearth of theorization. As an attempt to theorize the area, this collection of new and updated e...

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Bradberry (Author)(Perfect bound edition) Knit perfect fitting hats every time in any size with any yarn! 45 styles and variations and 17 sizes to choose from. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs with colour versions available to view online. By the author of "Kids Knit!" and owner of Knitting-and.com, one of the most popular and longest running knitting websites on the net. 144 pages Number of Pages: 144 Dime...

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Report copyright infringementby Carol Dyhouse (Author)How do we understand glamour? Has it empowered women or turned them into objects? Once associated with modernity and the cutting edge, is it entirely bound up with nostalgia and tradition? This unique and fascinating book tells the story of glamour. It explores the changing meanings of the word, its relationship to femininity and fashion, and its place in twentieth century social history. Using a rich variety of sources - from women's maga...

Hairstyles and Fashion: A Hairdresser's History of Paris, 1910-1920

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Zdatny (Editor)The way a society deals with hair speaks volumes about its structures, its wealth, and its values. How is hair arranged? Is it left long or cut short? How often is it washed? Do men and women treat their hair differently and what does this tell us about gender? This stimulating book contains articles written by the Paris hairstylist Emile Long between December 1910 and December 1920 for an English trade journal. Long's purpose in writing w...

Reconstructing Italian Fashion: America and the Development of the Italian Fashion Industry

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Report copyright infringementby Nicola White (Author), Joanne B. Eicher (Editor)Despite its long eclipse by Parisian couture, Italian fashion is now celebrated globally for the quality of its tailoring, fabric and design. But an Italian label was not always a yardstick for excellence. In the twenty years following the Second World War, a little known fact is that America played a key role in the development of Italy's fashion industry. More generally known is that the Marshall Plan had a form...