Name/Title
Extreme textiles : designing for high performanceEntry/Object ID
TA418.9.C6.M37Description
"Featuring examples of fully realized products from all classes of technical textiles--architectural, product design, apparel, medicine, transportation, aerospace, industry, and the environment--Extreme Textiles highlights successful collaborations between design, industry, and science. Large, full-color illustrations and essays by some of today's most influential designers and scientists trace the extraordinary developments made in textiles over the last twenty years and suggest what is to come." -- BACK COVERLexicon
Search Terms
fibrous composites, textile fabrics, textile fibersBook Details
Author
Maltida McQuaidPublisher
Princeton Architectural Press, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design MuseumDate Published
2005Call No.
TA418.9.C6.M37ISBN
156898507X, 9781568985077LCCN
2004023383Notes
Length: 224General Notes
Note Type
ContentsNote
Foreword / Paul Warwick Thompson -- Stronger, faster, lighter, safer and smarter / Matilda McQuaid -- Textiles: fiber, structure, and function / Susan Brown -- Ropes / John W.S. Hearle -- High-performance fibers / Alyssa Becker -- An interview with Eric Goetz / Matilda McQuaid -- A transformed architecture / Philip Beesley and Sean Hanna -- NASA: advancing ultra-performance / Cara McCarty -- The spacesuit / Amanda Young -- Textiles from novel means of innovation / Patricia Wilson.