Crafting textiles in the digital age /

"In an era of increasingly available digital resources, many textile designers and makers find themselves at an interesting juncture between traditional craft process and newer digital technologies. Highly specialized craft/design practitioners may now elect to make use of digital processes in...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Nimkulrat, Nithikul, 1974- (Editor); Kane, Faith (Editor); Walton, Kerry (Editor)
Published: Bloomsbury T & T Clark,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2016.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Summary: "In an era of increasingly available digital resources, many textile designers and makers find themselves at an interesting juncture between traditional craft process and newer digital technologies. Highly specialized craft/design practitioners may now elect to make use of digital processes in their work, but often choose not to abandon craft skills fundamental to their practice, and aim to balance the complex connection between craft and digital processes. The essays collected here consider this transition from the viewpoint of aesthetic opportunity arising in the textile designer's hands-on experimentation with material and digital technologies available in the present. Craft provides the foundations for thinking within the design and production of textiles, and as such may provide some clues in the transition to creative and thoughtful use of current and future digital technologies. Within the framework of current challenges relating to sustainable development, globalization, and economic constraints it is important to interrogate and question how we might go about using established and emerging technologies in textiles in a positive manner"--
Carrier Form: xxiii, 214 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781472532046
147253204X
9781472529060
1472529065
9781474286220
1474286224
9781474286206
1474286208
Index Number: TS1475
CLC: TS104.1-37
Call Number: TS104.1-37/C885
Contents: Digital technologies informing craft :
Crafting textiles in the digital age: printed textiles /
Digital embroidery practice /
Textile illusions: patterns of light and the woven white screen /
The intelligence of the hand /
Craft intervention in digital process:
The digital print room: a bespoke approach to print technology /
Maintaining the human touch: exploring "crafted control" within an advanced textile production interface /
Garment ID: textile patterning techniques for hybrid functional clothing /
Processes within digitally printed textile design /
Craft thinking in a digital age :
Hand knitting in a digital era /
Hidden values and human inconsistencies in hand stitching processes /
Perspectives on making and viewing: generating meaning through textiles /
Closely held secrets: embodied knowledge in digitally crafted textiles /