Fabric for Fashion: The Swatch Book Revised Second Edition

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If you are interested in sewing clothing, this is a book that I would definitely recommend that you read and keep handy on your shelf as a valued reference book. There are a multitude of both natural and synthetic fibers covered here, even some odd ones you wouldn't expect.

I’m pretty new to clothing sewing and I love all my sewing bloggers, but when ya’ll talk about this fabric or that fabric, I have no idea what it means. It also has been tested, and there is a pdf that provides reference fabric sample pages with different color images that makes it easier to check. Amanda also teaches at London College of Fashion, and presents at institutions including Central Saint Martins, the Royal College of Art and the Council of Fashion Designers of America.Now, if you’re looking for a text that demonstrates various weights of suit weight wools, you’ll be disappointed. Laurence King, the publisher, is extending a 35% discount to all Fashion-Incubator readers (but sure, you can pass the code around) on this title.

These blends are used so much that seeing and feeling the differences in them would have been really useful. The authors offer much to learn about trademarked biosynthetics (fabrics generated in part from renewable resources), plants that form the basis of novel fabrics, and different collaboration and activist groups formed to meet sustainability goals.But I hesitate because I like to FEEL and touch fabric to see if it is the right thing for what I want to make… I wonder if I am on the naughty list? Marnie Fogg is a fashion expert whose experience of the fashion industry means that she is uniquely placed to access original material.

Bound into a hardcover book, with descriptions and contextual illustrations alongside them, the fabrics are in their raw state, before bleaching, dying or finishing, so that their properties can be observed without the distraction of colour or pattern. However, I wish that the authors would have included a special section on the cotton/poly blends (e. All in all, a great reference book that I know I will use time and time again, will save me many future headaches, make purchasing fabric online so much easier and will add much diversity to my future home sewn wardrobe. A bestseller for over 10 years, Fabric for Fashion: The Swatchbook is a unique resource with 125 swatches of the most recognized and widely used varieties of fabric to encourage consideration of not just their aesthetic appeal but also their structure, feel and weight.This second edition of Fabric for Fashion offers refreshed information on sustainability and smart fabrics. Normally I don’t worry too much about aesthetics when it comes to technical books but this one has a difference that I appreciate.