Identification of Fabrics

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Brigitte Herrbach-Schmidt
ICOM Costume Committee board memberfab

 

The main techniques of fabric construction are

Lacemaking, not fitting into this pattern, is examined separately

 

Read more

Annemarie Seiler-Baldinger: Systematik der Textilen Techniken. Basel 1991 (Basler Beiträge zur Ethnologie Bd.32) – English edition: Textile: a classification of technique. Washington 1994 (It is about all things you may do to connect threads)

Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier, Bernard Berthod, Martine Chavent-Fusaro: Les Etoffes. Dictionnaire historique. Paris 1994 (Very solid and readable at the same time, many English terms as well)

Irene Emery: The primary structure of Fabrics, London 1994, 3rd edition

See also

http://vintagefashionguild.org/fabric-resource-a-z/

http://vintagefashionguild.org/fabric-looks-like/

And don’t forget a magnifying glass for looking at your fabric; it need not necessarily be a linen tester.

 

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