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Book Review: Chloe Colchester’s “Textiles Today”

September 19, 2007

If you want to know something about “what’s next,” you could do a whole lot worse than spend 20 minutes leafing through this lushly illustrated survey of textiles technology and fashion.

 

In fact, you may end up spending 60 minutes but thinking it was only six. The explorations are fascinating, provocative – and will no doubt spur you to new ideas and new questions about the textiles world.

 

The subtitle of the Colchester book is “A global survey of trends and traditions.” She doesn’t just show the “wow” factor of mind-boggling new materials science – in this book she refracts those developments off the changes in textiles traditions in places like Nigeria, New Guinea, and the Standing Rock Reservation (Lakota Sioux nation) in North and South Dakota.

 

Involved in the day-to-day operations of our industry, we often view it as a race to get more commodities to the consumer at a better margin – and that it is. But it is also an industry based on creativity and craft. That element of inspiration has always been important in home textiles. A look through this new book may generate some marketable ideas for your business.

 

One place to find this just-published book is Amazon: Textiles Today by Chloe Colchester or your local bookseller. Published by Thames & Hudson, distributed by W.W. Norton.

Posted by James Mammarella on September 19, 2007 | Comments (10)

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