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The incredible intersection of textiles, design, and technology and how it influences our twenty-first-century way of life.

Following on the success of the first edition of Techno Textiles , the updated Techno Textiles 2 is completely revised and incorporates over 200 new illustrations, all in color. Textile technology has radically evolved in recent years, and many of the ideas mentioned in the first edition have now become reality, while countless new ones have been conceived.

Techno Textiles 2 highlights advanced textiles in production and available to the designer, artist, architect, and consumer today. here are textiles for a new world: fabrics that shrink or expand to the desired size; textiles developed from carbon, steel, glass, and ceramics; materials that protect the wearer from environmental extremes on earth and in space.

The book is divided into three sections: "Innovation" (how the newest textiles are imagined and made); "Applications" (from fashion and design to architecture and art); and "Reference" (a full reference guide, including glossary, biographies. directory of addresses, public collections, and extensive bibliography). It will become required reading for professionals and for anyone curious about the new environment in which we live.

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• Part 1 Innovations
• The future of fibres and fabrics(p. 12)
• Electronic textiles(p. 32)
• Engineered textiles(p. 52)
• Textile finishes(p. 76)
• Part 2 Applications
• Fashion(p. 106)
• Design(p. 136)
• Architecture(p. 150)
• Art(p. 164)
• Part 3 Reference
• Glossary of Technical Terms(p. 190)
• Biographies and Histories(p. 192)
• Directory of Addresses(p. 200)
• Exhibitions(p. 204)
• Collections and Galleries(p. 205)
• Illustration Credits(p. 206)
• Bibliography(p. 207)
• Index(p. 208)

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Publishers Weekly Review

This book builds on the first edition?s theme of technologically-innovative textiles, with a focus on explaining the textiles and showing their applications in architecture, design, fashion and art. Many of the materials covered have origins in military, space or heavy industry (a shirt, for instance, made partially with metal alloys that ?remember? their original shape has roots in the European space program), but have been transformed by engineers, designers, architects and artists into improved (or just different) versions of objects traditionally made with plastic or natural fabric, i.e. three-dimensional embroidery, used for a vascular prosthesis; ceramic-based fabrics that conduct very little heat and make ideal fuel filters and swimwear; and woven polypropylene, as used in architectural applications. Examples are presented in a thoughtful layout that includes hundreds of bright photographs. (Though the ?Fashion? section, a fitful marriage of glossy fashion mags and dull techtalk, is lacking in the inspiration department.) The writing, however, runs the gamut from bland to clunky to grammatically or structurally flawed (?Fashion designers choose the new textiles largely for their progressive appearance and sometimes regardless of their supreme performance properties?) and can belabor the obvious. ( ?Umbrella structures are used in many outdoor sites to provide protection from the elements.?) This book has a trove of information and eye candy, but its lack of writing chops makes it more a flip-through visual reference than a satisfying read. (Mar.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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Sarah E. Braddock Clarke is a consultant/curator and Senior Lecturer in Fashion Design and Performance Sportswear Design at University College Falmouth. She has co-authored numerous books on advanced textiles and their applications to fashion and performance sportswear, including Techno Textiles and SportsTech , both published by Thames & Hudson.

Marie O'Mahony is Professor of Advanced Textiles at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.