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Journal of Textiles, Coloration and Polymer Science

abric is one of humanity's most basic needs, not only for clothing but also for aesthetic and utilitarian reasons. Fabric appearance, texture, suitability for end-use, and other factors are influenced by the fabric-forming process or fabrication procedure. The structure of these fabrics varies based on the interlacement/interloping pattern of yarns, which controls the fabric's qualities. A textile is a flexible material made of a web of synthetic or natural fibres (yarn or thread). Wool, flax, cotton, hemp, or other basic materials are spun into long strands to create yarn. To create a textile, one must weave, knit, crochet, knot, felt, or braid. A successful design must involve consideration of essential factors, including the pattern, theme and placement of motifs, style of presentation, and use of colour. These considerations alone support the creation of a separate professional category for textile design.

What’s a Fabric? Concepts and Approaches to Modern Textile Design

The present text is looking to the ways in which the fabrics have been conceptualized in modern times by relying on designers’ point of view. Taking into account some referential figures of modern textiles design, we have distinguished between three different conceptions: the fabric as surface (and object of decoration, as defined by William Morris), the fabric as construction (as defended by Anni Albers), the fabric as membra- ne or interface (as proposed more recently by Joanna Berzowska or Philip Beesley). Besides the historical relevance, these concepts testify of the technical and scientific advancements and last, but not least, of the paradigmatic changes that took place on the way we con- ceive the matter.

Textile Dictionary

This Complete Textile Glossary is intended to be a convenient reference for textile terminology. Although it covers all types of textile terms broadly, its special emphasis is on manufactured fibers -what they are, how they are made, and how they are used.

Textiles as Webs of Meaning

Material Matters - The Subtance of Textile Art, 2002

The English title of the exhibition, Material Matters, is both ambiguous and difficult to translate into Swedish. In one sense it simply states that the choice of material is of import. In other ways, it means "material issues,'' "material substances" or "important questions.'' The English "matter'' has the same double sense as the Swedish "ämne" and can thus be taken to refer both to something material as well as immaterial. Furthermore, if an English- speaking person says that something is "material" he or she can do so both in the sense that it consists of a physical substance and that it is of great import, that it is "essential." In this way, the title Material Matters is a good summary of the discussions ¬– between the artists who make up Fiber Art Sweden and the Norrköping Museum of Art – that eventually led to the realization of the exhibition.

Chapter 2 Woven Fabrics for Technical and Industrial Products

2018

Textile products are classified into products for clothing, household, and technical textiles. Products for clothing and household goods such as curtains, textile wallpapers, fabrics, furniture, carpets, and so on can be easily defined. Textiles that do not fit into these categories may be considered technical textiles. Technical textiles are products designed to perform a specific function. In this category are the woven fabrics presented in this chapter, such as webbings or woven fabrics used to produce reinforcing elements of composite materials.

Understanding Textiles - from Artist to Spectator

The appearance of textiles, which by common perception is their main attribute, is shaped by many different factors, such as the raw material, ornamentation and structure, both as an external form and a manner of connecting fibers and other elements of textiles. It is not always realised by contemporary artists and designers that the same factors also determine the durability, conservation and storage methods. The paper briefly describes the main factors constituting textiles, showing how important the awareness of their role is to all who deal with textiles, from artists and designers, conservators and critics, to visitors to a gallery and museum exhibitions. It also shows that historical textiles, contemporary textile art and industrial textile products only appear to constitute separate independent worlds and in fact influence each other

Woven Fabrics for Technical and Industrial Products

Textiles for Advanced Applications, 2017