Textiles Today
A Global Survey of Trends and Traditions

Chloe Colchester

Textiles owe their development and evolution to religion, commerce, and travel, and their vibrant and creative preservation to tenacious regionalism. This book embraces the diversity of the textile world that makes it both exciting and provocative as it brings together a wide range of otherwise fragmented images and perspectives.

Extraordinary technological developments, from color changing, light-sensitive camouflage to emergency shelters of cement-impregnated fabric bonded to an inflatable plastic, are included here alongside the simply beautiful, such as patterns that point to the historical exchange of ideas between the East and the West, or the astonishing color transmutations of Morphotex, a fiber of multilayer optical interference.