This up-to-date book highlights advanced textiles in production and available to the designer, artist, architect, and consumer today. It explores the exciting confluence of art, design, and technology: new textiles that shrink or expand to fit; fabrics developed from carbon, steel, glass, and ceramics; materials that protect the wearer from environmental extremes on earth and in space.

Featuring a wide selection of textiles at the cutting edge of technology, the book covers the field in three main sections:

• Innovations: how the newest textiles are imagined and produced.


• Applications: from fashion and design to architecture and art.


• Reference: including a glossary, biographies, a bibliography, and directories of addresses and public collections.

Sarah E. Braddock Clarke is a freelance lecturer, curator, and writer specializing in textiles and their applications to fashion, design, and the arts. Marie O'Mahony is a textile and technology consultant for organizations throughout the United States and Europe.