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Textiles: A History

Textiles: A History

A History

by Fiona McDonald
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/02/2012

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A fascinating and accessible history of textiles, including the key personalities and inventions which revolutionized the industry, together with the East End workshops and the creation of artificial materials such as rayon. Textile expert, Fiona McDonald, includes tips on the care and repair of materials and advice on what's worth collecting and the best materials to wear, as well as safe cleaning, tips on collecting. In addition to a handy glossary of textile terms, there is an A-Z of different textiles, full of interesting facts - did you know that velvet was originally made from silk and its name derives from the Latin word, vellus, meaning fleece, or that cabbage was the term used in the rag trade to refer to the extra outfits clever cutters created and sold off the books by careful placement of the pattern. A fascinating and often surprising subject area explored at an accessible but informative level. Did you know? .Peau de Soie is a heavy satin which was used for wedding dresses at the turn of the last century. The word satin is derived from Zaytoun, an area of China where it was first made .We have lost many evocative names for colours over the years, including bouffon (darker than eau de nil) cendre de rose (gray with pink nuances), dust of Paris (ecru), esterhazy (silver-gray), fly's wing (graphite) and terre d'Egypt (rust) AUTHOR: Fiona McDonald's textile creations are much in demand. Her grandfather and great grandfather were both tailors, her grandfather creating shorts out of hessian bags for fellow prisoners at Sandakan during the Second World War. Fiona has also written several craft books based on her designs for toys and is fascinated by the history of the textiles used in her creations. ILLUSTRATIONS: 150-200 b/w & colour illustrations
ISBN:
9781848845091
9781848845091
Category:
Social & cultural history
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-02-2012
Publisher:
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
304
Dimensions (mm):
246x172x0mm
Fiona McDonald

On leaving school Fiona enrolled at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney where she spent four years undertaking a rigorous training programme in drawing and painting. It took Fiona six years to complete her undergraduate degree in English and Italian literature, then another year for an Honours degree.

It took several more years, in which she did a teaching degree, taught in high school and ran her own art school, before Fiona finally engaged a literary agent and began to write professionally. Since 2009 Fiona has had five books published and has another four in progress. Fiona lives in Armidale, on the New England Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia with her family and many pets.

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