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9781568985077

Extreme Textiles Designing for High Performance

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  • ISBN13:

    9781568985077

  • ISBN10:

    156898507X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-06-02
  • Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
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Summary

Stronger, faster, safer-these are the textiles of tomorrow. Large colour illustration and accessible essays by influential designers and scientists trace the developments made in textiles over the last 20 years. Extreme Textiles accompanies the first major exhibit devoted to these materials at the Cooper-Hewitt in New York City (April 2005).

Author Biography

Matilda McQuaid is the exhibitions curator and head of the Textiles Department at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Formerly of the Museum of Modern Art, she has curated more than thirty exhibitions and has authored several books.

Table of Contents

Forewordp. 6
Introduction : stronger, faster, lighter, safer, and smarterp. 10
Textiles : fiber, structure, and functionp. 34
Ropesp. 66
High-performance fibersp. 72
NASA : advancing ultra-performancep. 138
The spacesuitp. 162
Textiles from novel means of innovationp. 180
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