Apparel & Design
Pocket Textile Merchandising & Marketing Expert
In today's competitive marketplace, a textile merchandiser must have more than just the basic
information to survive. This book is best described as ‘All About Textile Merchandising &
Marketing.’ This great book is in many ways a perfect introduction to the practical aspects of
textile merchandising and marketing. Excellent handbook for designers, merchandisers, marketing
personnel, production departments, salesmen, pattern makers, buying offices, sourcing agents,
factories and industry executives from around the world. The ideal guide when dealing with overseas
factories and production agents in person or by phone, fax or email.
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.
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.
Fiber Spinning
Yarn Texturing Technology
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.
General Reference
2009 Davison's Textile Blue Book
Directory of Textile Mills, Dyers, and Finishers in
the US, Canada,Mexico and Central America. The "Davison's Textile Blue Book" allows for simple
sourcing of companies in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America that produce or
market textile products from fiber-through-finished fabric. This includes producers of fibers, both
natural and man-made, spinners, weavers, knitters, producers of nonwovens, dyers and finishers,
converters, selling agents, and jobbers. The "Buyer's Guide" section allows for simple sourcing of
companies that manufacture or sell textile machinery, both new and used, parts and accessories,
chemicals, supplies, and services.
For more information please contact:
Kitty Brigham
(678) 569-4886
Nonwovens & Technical Textiles
Textiles in Sport
Written by a distinguished editor and an international team of experts, Textiles for Sport explores
technical developments and trends in the sports clothing industry. This book discusses the current
sportswear market, analyzing current design, material requirement, and functional footwear. It
outlines innovative fabrics including high-performance and high-functional fibers, smart and
intelligent textiles, and coated and laminated textiles. It examines the need for comfort in
sportswear and its role in performance. This text also considers the issue of protection and offers
specific applications with case studies of textile composites, textiles in sailing, and textile use
in sports shoes.