Fundamentals and Practices in Colouration of Textiles
Colouration of textiles is an art and less complicated than actually thought; just needs due attention to ascertain look, quality and consistency in product. Each textile is coloured with specific colourants through its own technology. Thorough realization of basics of colouration is the basic need to achieve that. Fundamentals and Practices in Colouration of Textiles explains basics of colouration with a match in practical application precisely but in detail. It covers academic as well as industrial aspects of colouration, defines problems and solutions to develop quality product with greater ease.
The Industrial Revolution in America: Automobiles, Mining and Petroleum, Textiles
The Industrial Revolution was the wellspring from which the modern United States emerged. But look closer at specific industries and you will see the nation confronting the inevitable side effects of modernization for the first time, among them urbanization and a shift from a farm-based economy (textile manufacturing), labor unrest (mining and petroleum), and pollution and rampant consumerism (the automobile industry).
Historical dress and textiles, always a topic of popular interest, has in recent years become an academic subject in its own right, transcending traditional genre boundaries. This annual journal includes in-depth studies from a variety of disciplines as well as cross-genre scholarship, representing such fields as social history, economics, history of techniques and technology, art history, archaeology, literature, and language. The contents cover a broad geographical scope and a range of periods from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
Among the most evocative items to be discovered by archaeologists are the scraps of silk and wool and other fabrics that signal so eloquently their owner's status and concerns. Such clothing and textile finds have figured prominently in excavations of medieval sites in London in the past two decades; they have included knitting, tapestries, silk hair-nets and elaborately patterned oriental, Islamic and Italian fabrics, which reveal for the first time the wide range of cloths available to medieval Londoners; there are beautifully made buttons, and buttonholes and edgings which display superb craftsmanship and a high level of needlework skills.
The Industrial Revolution in America: Automobiles, Mining and Petroleum, Textiles
This book draws on the latest research to tell the stories of the industry that started the United States down the road toward economic revolution (textiles), the industry that represented the revolution's ultimate destination (automobiles), and the industry that fueled the journey by turning the nation's natural resources into sources of wealth and power.
