PANTONE for Fashion and Home Color Chooser 3.0

PANTONE for fashion and home color chooser 3.0 is a quick and easy way to integrate over 1, 900 PANTONE for fashion and home colors into your design software. Now includes color swatch libraries for use with Adobe Illustrator. Optimized sRGB and HTML values enable improved visualization on screen.

This installs like an application and works as an add on to your current system color picker.

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Mastering Weave Structures

This is the most important new weaving book Interweave Press has published in almost 20 years. Sharon Alderman, one of the finest weavers in America, has written a book that teaches you the finer points of weave structure in the same personal way a friend would encourage and inspire you. Clear explanations, wonderful examples, and color photographs of stunning fabrics introduce you to the fundamental principles of weave structure. Beyond selecting or modifying a draft, Sharon also helps you make decisions about choosing the fibers and yarns you need to produce endlessly inventive fabrics. Comprehensive and detailed, the chapters cover plain weave, twills, satin, waffle weaves, distortions of the grid, three-element weaves, loom-controlled double weave, Bedford cords and piques, loom-controlled pile weaves, and crepe weaves. This book is destined to become a new classic and should be on every weaver's bookshelf.

ISBN: 978-1-59668-137-8

PANTONE® TEXTILE Color Chooser

The PANTONE Textile Color Chooser is designed to work with any design and illustration applications or any other application where you need to use the PANTONE Textile Colors. As a designer, stylist or CAD technician, you now have the ability to use PANTONE Textile Colors in a digital format for the accurate communication of color.

The PANTONE Textile Color Chooser (Version 1.0) contains two color palettes: (1) the PANTONE TEXTILE Color System(R) (TCS) - 1,701 colors specifically developed by Pantone for fashion conscious industries and (2) the PANTONE Textile New Colors - 56 New Colors that are part of the most recent range extension for the industry standard PANTONE TEXTILE Color System.

This is an older version of the software. Click here to get the newest version.

Colour Forecasting

A book for understanding the use of colour in fashion and apparel by Tracy Diane and Tom Cassidy and published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd in 2005

ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-2120-0, ISBN-10: 1-4051-2120-3

Lecture Notes on various topics related to textile, apparel and fashion

A great collection of lecture notes on textile and apparel manufacturing and merchandising as well as fashion designing from Rai Foundation Colleges under their OpenCourseware initiative.

Lecture Notes available for these courses:

* Clothing Manufacture & Production Operation
* Textile Manufacturing Techniques
* Visual Merchandising
* Fashion Forecasting
* Experimental Embroidery Textiles
* Accessory Designing
* Fashion Stylization
* Model Drawing
* Design Exploration in Fashion
* Techniques & Processes in Fashion
* Brand Positioning
* CAD-CAM-II

Handbook of Textile Design

A book by Jacquie Wilson and published by CRS press of Woodhead Publishing Limited

ISBN 1 85573 573 3