From Fiber to Fabric

Harriet Hargrave presents the definitive resource guide to selection, use, and care of today’s textiles. Includes easy-to-understand directions for testing fiber content, thread count, colorfastness, lightfastness, washfastness, and shrinkage. You’ll find information on the effects of water and detergents on different fabrics and dyes. Thread compatibility and batting selection charts.

Providing a comprehensive survey of the textile field, this program reflects the trends in this fast-moving industry. It features a separate chapter on each major type of fiber and an unit on the consumer use and evaluation of apparel and home furnishings, as well as use of relevant illustrations. Metrications

The essential technical knowledge needed to make the right choices about all aspects of soft furnishing.

Books about From Fiber to Fabric

Traces the history and process of fabric making from the earliest weaving by primitive people to modern factory methods, including discussions of sources and types of fibers, bleaching and dyeing, and growing and processing of wool and cotton.