The role of a designer is changing, with technological, environmental and social factors impacting the ways in which we need to create for the future. As the global textile printing market continues to grow, the techniques used for printing textiles are being reassessed and reinvented in more conscious ways.
Highlighting both larger scale industry innovations and smaller scale artisanal practices across the world, this new title from two leading figures in textile design will equip students, professionals and designer-makers with an overview of a wide range of low-impact approaches.
Highlighting both larger scale industry innovations and smaller scale artisanal practices across the world, this new title from two leading figures in textile design will equip students, professionals and designer-makers with an overview of a wide range of low-impact approaches.
Reviews
a timely deep dive into printed textiles today, and it goes well beyond what you might expect from a book about process.
What Rebecca Hoyes and Jo Pierce reveal is a landscape of rich investigative practice, where colour and pattern are drawn from bacteria, fungi, algae, mud and even textile waste. A simple map of colour sources, spanning plant, animal, mineral, bio-engineered and waste streams, is a quietly brilliant prompt for rethinking where colour comes from. The book is also refreshingly honest: it acknowledges that natural colour at scale must not come at the cost of monocultures or land needed for food.
With designer profiles, industry innovations and accessible "design hacks", the projects move from studio experiment to manufacturing and feel both inspiring and achievable.
For students, educators and practitioners alike, this is an essential, beautifully produced resource for anyone who believes colour, pattern and material can be a force for change.