Textile design is an essential reference for design professionals in the textile and fashion industries, as well as those who specialise in interior textiles and academics with a research interest in the area.

Table of Contents

• The Textile Institute and Woodhead Publishing
• About the Contributors
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part I: Principles: Fabric construction approaches to textile design
• 1 Fibres, yarns and fabrics: fundamental principles for the textile designer
• 2 Woven textile design
• 3 Knitted textile design
• Part II: Principles: Surface approaches to textile design
• 4 Surface design of textiles
• 5 Printed textile design
• 6 Embroidered textile design
• 7 Designing through dyeing and finishing
• 8 The use of colour in textile design
• Part III: Applications and advances
• 9 Colour trend forecasting and its influence on the fashion and textile industry
• 10 Sustainable textile design
• 11 Fashion design: the dynamics of textiles in advancing cultural memes
• 12 Interior textile design
• 13 The interaction of two and three dimensional design in textiles and fashion
• 14 The design of technical textiles
• 15 Designing future textiles: new developments in textile structures and surface treatments