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April/May/June 2013

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Apparel & Design

The Design Detail Book/Edition 2: Sleeves, Cuffs, Shoulders

A creative reference book containing an abundance of quick fashion sketches for design development. The second in a series of fashion designer’s handbooks, this edition is packed full with loads of quick fashion sketches for design reference and inspiration.

More than 300 sleeve, cuff, and shoulder details illustrated and labeled by name and category. Makes an excellent tool for design referral and direction when designing, merchandising, selling, and teaching in the fashion, wholesale, retail, and costume industries. Edition Two- ideal for designers of coats, jackets, shirts, blouses, tops, loungewear, dresses, costumes, and more.

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Dyeing, Printing, & Finishing

Total Colour Management In Textiles

Keeping industrial applications in the forefront, Total Colour Management provides basic yet comprehensive knowledge on the many aspects of colour management. Divided into two sections, the book explores the separate processes of measuring and managing colour. The book touches briefly of theoretical aspects but is firmly rooted in the practical. It delineates how to implement colour management strategies to the working environment. Each section includes references for further information and discussions of future trends. Written by a panel of specialists guided by expert editorship, the book gives readers a solid working knowledge of how to approach colour management.

Total colour management will prove invaluable for individuals from a variety of disciplines and organisation levels in colour management, colour quality monitoring and evaluation as well as for graphic designers, merchandisers, product development specialists and anyone who uses colour in their work. It is also of use to academics and students researching textiles, fashion, design, fine arts, or any colour related subjects.

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Fabric Formation

Textile Sizing

Keeping pace with rapid developments in the field, Textile Sizing illustrates the necessity and value of sizing techniques in the modern textile industry.

This reference analyzes new fibers, spinning methods, and weaving techniques that affects textile production, and studies the impact of fiber properties, yarn quality, sizing processes and materials, and chemical and mechanical phenomena on efficient textile manufacturing and development.

Numerous tables dispersed throughout the text provide specific guidance on the wide range of processes involved in textile sizing and helps the reader to understand the importance of desizing and its effect on size recovery and environmental pollution.

Textile sizing is the perfect text for physical, surface, colloid, textile, materials, polymer, plastics, and fiber chemists; industrial, manufacturing, textile, fiber, and composite engineers; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

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Fiber Spinning

Yarn Texturing Technology

Texturing is increasingly important in textile production, not only in yarns for weaving and knitting fashion products, but also for carpets, furnishing fabrics and a variety of technical textiles.

Yarn Texturing Technology covers all the major techniques including twist-texturing, jet-screen texturing, false-twist process, BCF processes and air-jet texturing in detail. Combining a comprehensive review of the physics and chemistry of texturing with a thorough, illustrated description of current practice, this book will be invaluable for yarn and fabric manufacturers, textile scientists and students in textile science and technology courses.

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General Reference

Latin America Textile Business Review (1st Edition)

Latin America Textile Business Review, a unique reference resource of the textile and clothing industries in Central and South America, as well as selected Caribbean countries, including: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Written by Jozef De Coster and with more than 330 pages and over 315 tables, Latin America Textile Business Review provides timely information enabling, manufacturers, consultants, buying and trading organizations, research institutes and marketing associations to make critical decisions about new markets and sourcing opportunities in this rapidly developing region.

Latin America Textile Business Review includes the latest available statistical information on 20 countries in this emerging market, and an in-depth analysis of the current and future business environment affecting the region’s textile and apparel sector.

ISBN 978-0-9573-6160-7

Published by Textile Media Services

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Nonwovens & Technical Textiles

Asian Automotive Textiles: Opportunities and challenges for leading producers (1st edition)

Asian Automotive Textiles: Opportunities and challenges for leading producers provides a unique reference resource of the automotive textile industry in 10 Asian markets, including China, Japan, india, south Korea,Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan and Malaysia. these economies produce and consume more than 95% of the Asian automotive textile market.

This new report provides the latest available commercial information on leading automotive textile producers in Asia and an in-depth analysis of the current business environment affecting the region’s automotive textile sector. it identifies strengths, weaknesses and strategic challenges enabling manufacturers, trading companies and investors to make critical decisions and locate opportunities in this rapidly growing market.

Written by Chen Nan Yang, this in-depth report, with around 220 pages and 80 tables:


• examines the Asian automobile industry and market
• explores the outlook for the Asian automotive textiles industry
• describes problems and highlights strategic plans

• identifies investment and business opportunities.

ISBN 978-0-9565-2386-0

Published by Textile Media Services

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