Product Description: Textile Messages focuses on the emerging field of electronic textiles, or e-textiles – computers that can be soft, colorful, approachable, and beautiful. E-textiles are articles of clothing, home furnishings, or architectures that include embedded computational and electronic elements...read more

Product Description: An authoritative and comprehensive survey of the latest developments in high-tech textiles. The world’s most creative designers and engineers are working together to develop high-performance fabrics that are sustainable, fireproof, anti-bacterial, soundproof, sun- and even shark-resistant...read more

Product Description: The right clothing and equipment is of vital importance to the survival and effectiveness of military personnel. Advances in military textiles and personal equipment summarises key research on the design, manufacture and applications of military textiles...read more

Product Description: Featuring the work of fashion-forward international designers such as Sandra Backlund and Martin Margiela, this startling in-depth book explores the radical new innovations in fashion technology, and exciting trends in material that are set to change the face of fashion...read more

Product Description: Computational techniques have been widely applied in the textile industry and garment industry since the 1950’s. This book surveys representative applications of computational techniques, including Textile quality assessment by image analysis; Modeling and simulation of textile structures, Computer aided garment design, Computerized textile management and textile Supply Chain, Textile quality subjective and objective evaluation; Computational thermal bioengineering of textiles and clothing; Computational biomechanical engineering of textiles and clothing...read more

Product Description: This collection provides a detailed review of how textiles are incorporated into wound care applications, explaining the importance and suitability of using textiles on different wound types. It introduces wound care and covers wound management and the importance of laboratory testing in relation to wound care...read more

Product Description: A comprehensive review of the technologies and materials available for the design and production of smart clothing, this book goes beyond the basics to provide a comprehensive overview of the wearer’s requirements. After assessing the design and materials available for smart clothing and wearable technology, the book covers the design process from fiber selection through to product developments in digital print technology...read more

Product Description: The interplay of electronic textiles and wearable technology, wearables for short, and fashion, design and science is a highly promising and topical subject. Offered here is a compact survey of the theory involved and an explanation of the role technology plays in a fabric or article of clothing...read more

Discusses how scientists have developed self-cooling clothing based on properties found in pine cones.

Product Description: Written by a distinguished editor and an international team of experts, Textiles for Sport explores technical developments and trends in the sports clothing industry. This book discusses the current sportswear market, analyzing current design, material requirement, and functional footwear...read more

Product Description: Building electronics into clothing is a major new concept that opens up a whole array of multi-functional, wearable electro-textiles for sensing/monitoring body functions, delivering communication facilities, data transfer, individual environment control, and so on...read more

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