Fabrics: A Guide for Interior Designers and Architects |  | Author: Marypaul Yates
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 101896
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 8.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 039373062X
Dewey Decimal Number: 677
EAN: 9780393730623
ASIN: 039373062X
Publication Date: April 2002
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Product Description
A comprehensive, illustrated reference for those who choose fabrics for interiors. Fabrics provides designers with the information they need to make their fabric specifications easy, informed, and appropriate to the job at hand, considering aesthetics, performance, and green design. It describes and illustrates the many fibers, construction techniques, processes, finishes, styles, and applications of cloth for furniture and window-, wall-, and floor coverings. 300 color illustrations.
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 BroadBased Knowledge May 12, 2007
Tat Brat (Wisconsin, USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Well-organized and informative general reference on textiles for home or commercial use. Also has a great references section. Pictures are helpful, but I'd also recommend having a "hands-on" source in order to get a better understanding of all of the terminology and descriptions.
awesome book! November 3, 2008
Felicia A. Mancuso (Stamford, CT United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a incredible book. It has a wealth of information. I ordered this book for a Textiles book that I was taking for college. This book will serve as an invaluable reference source in the future. You won't be disappointed in this book.
Everything you need to know about furnishing textiles . . . September 19, 2009
T. Russell (Iowa City, Iowa)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a new student in interior design, I've found Mary Paul Yates's treatment of the material very helpful. She starts out with aesthetics, knowing that if she jumped right into yarns and fibers we might be turned off or intimidated. The coverage of color, light and lighting, texture, pattern and market appropriateness are all crucial considerations for the professional. A short chapter on sustainable design follows; an apt attention to the "green" concerns that are becoming more and more important to responsible occupants of planet Earth. We then learn about the fibers that make up the yarns that make up the fabrics, and their many characteristics which an educated designer must definitely know. Lest one would think she is fully informed, there are eight more important chapters, starting with fabric structure (wovens, knits, embroideries, bondeds, casements and laces, etc.)and ending with professional practices (fabric selection, costs and budgets, order-writing and "guidelines and pitfalls"). With abundant, colorful photographs, educational illustrations and an excellent glossary, this book is both informative and easy to read, and it's hard to imagine any client asking a question the thorough reader couldn't answer.
Excelent!! October 3, 2008
Maria Del Carmen Silva (Provo,UT USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Thank you very much the book arrived before I expected and in very good conditions!!!
Fabrics textbook January 5, 2007
Ronaline M. Martinson
0 out of 11 found this review helpful
book was in excellent condition, just as the seller specified! no torns, no highlights, no wear! arrived promptly!
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