Juliana Sissons

Knitwear (eBook, PDF)

An Introduction to Contemporary Design

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Fully revised and updated, this new second edition of Knitwear provides an invaluable introduction to the use of knitwear in fashion design. The book delves into the characteristics and behavior of many varieties of yarn and fiber, from traditional to contemporary, providing easy-to-follow diagrams, practical examples, and rich illustrations throughout.

Knitwear provides an insider's perspective into the knitwear industry and offers vital need-to-know information to readers on various career pathways, while highlighting contemporary machinery and tools available to knitwear designers today, demonstrating how to create knitting patterns, and laying out the basic techniques used on domestic machines.

Interviews with international designers, operating at different levels within the industry, provide further insight into the business of knitwear, and how to get a good head-start into the industry. A must-have handbook for the knitwear designer, Knitwear is a beautiful and indispensable guide to this growing area of the fashion industry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474251747
• Artikelnr.: 54671057

Autorenporträt

Juliana Sissons is a knitwear designer, educator and freelance pattern cutter with clients including Alexander McQueen, Shelley Fox, Hewitts of Savile Row and the BBC. Her work has also been commissioned by artists including Leigh Bowery, Andrew Logan, Britney Spears and style icon Isabella Blow. Juliana is a Senior Lecturer in Fashion Knitwear and Knitted Textiles at Nottingham Trent University, and also teaches at Manchester School of Art, the University of Brighton, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Approach to knit Reinventing traditional knitting Yarns and fibres
Construction of knit Developments in design and technology Industry
interview. Freddie Robins, Senior Tutor, Knitted Textiles, the Royal
College of Art 2. Creative development The brief Research Industry
interview: Shelley Fox, Director of MFA Fashion Design and Society, The New
School Parsons Design development Colour Sculptural form Presentation and
evaluation 3. Construction through pattern and texture The tension swatch
Basic techniques Lace Surface texture Industry interview. Sophie Steller,
Design Director Patterned knits 4. Construction through shape Partial
knitting. three-dimensional effects Creating flared shapes Increasing and
decreasing Industry interview. Katherine Mavridis: Knitwear Designer
Draping and shaping Creating a knitting pattern 5. Details and trims
Collars and neckbands Industry interview. Hannah Jenkinson, Knitwear
Designer Buttonholes and fastenings Hand-finishing techniques Embellishment
6. Menswear Historical contexts Androgynous contexts Industry interview:
Cozette McCreery Designer case study: Pa Byrne Designer case study: Ella
Nisbett Designer case study: Ben McKernan Designer case study: Latasha
Hammond Designer case study: Matilda Draper Designer case study: Kendall
Baker Designer case study: Carlo Volpi