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Customize Your Clothes : a head-to-toe guide to reinventing your wardrobe / Rain Blanken.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blanken, Rain.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clothing and dress--Remaking.
- Clothing and dress.
- Dress accessories.
- Dressmaking.
- dressmaking.
- Penn Provenance:
- Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Distribution:
- Philadelphia : Member of the Perseus Books Group,
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Running Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Why Customize? The Search for Individuality; Sustainable Fashion; Upcycling; Research; Sketching Designs; Generating Artworks: Photoshop; Placing Graphics
- 2. Bleaching. Abstracts; Motifs and Artworks; Basic Patterns; Bleaching Interview: Raygun Robyn; Bleaching Gallery
- 3. Coloring. Dip-dye; Spraying; Tie-dye; Batik; Coloring Interview: Batik Walla; Coloring Gallery
- 4. Printing, Block Print; Heat Transfer; Digital Print; Screen Print; Pen and Ink; Printing Interview: Screendream; Printing Gallery
- 5. Embellishments. Sequins; Ribbons; Beads; Studs; Appliqué and Buttons; Toys and Trinkets; Trim; Embellishments Interview: Patricia Valery; Embellishments Gallery
- 6. Deconstruction. Distressed; Cut and Slashed; Darning; Zippers; Stitch; Deconstruction Interview: Broken Ghost Couture; Deconstruction Gallery
- 7. Specialist Techniques. Punch Needle; Marbling; Embroidery; Embossing; Leather Punch; Specialist Techniques Interview: Aimee Ray; Specialist Techniques Gallery.
- Notes:
- "Cover design by Emily Portnoi. Interior design concept by Charlotte Heal. Layout by Victoria Avery. Art directed by Emily Portnoi. Commissioning Editor: Isheeta Mustafi. Edited by Lorraine Slipper. Photography by Dorn Byg. Typography: Flama and Bell."--Page [2].
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-180) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Running Press Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.
- Running Press copy is "1" printing.
- ISBN:
- 9780762443475
- 0762443472
- OCLC:
- 745979591
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