Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Too much to tell Chapter 2: Matrixial meaning Chapter 3: Talking textiles: A story Chapter 4: Design, thinking and textile thinking Mesh One Chapter 5: Translating and transforming Chapter 6: The translation paradigm for design culture (Elena Caratti and Daniela Calabi) Mesh Two Chapter 7: A story of hard and soft; Modernism and textiles as design Chapter 8: The gendered textile design discipline Chapter 9: Taking on textile thinking (Marion Lean) Chapter 10: Tracing back to trace forwards: what does it mean/take to be a Black textile designer (Rose Sinclair) Mesh Three Chapter 11: Paraphernalia and playing for design Chapter 12: Patterns of objects (Tom Fisher) Mesh Four Chapter 13: Design problems and designing pleasure Chapter 14: Design does not solve problems (Mark Roxburgh) Chapter 15: Elevated Surfaces Epilogue: Toing and Froing: on creating an oscillation-based practice (Marianne Fairbanks) Glossary of terms Contributors References References Index

Promotional Information

This book distinguishes textiles as a distinctive design discipline, within the context of the growing field of design theory and research.

About the Author

Elaine Igoe is Senior Lecturer in Fashion and Textile Design at the University of Portsmouth, UK.

Reviews

Delving into the interstices of textile design and textile making, Igoe’s richly conceived and generously formed text offers a new paradigm for textile design practices … suggesting an oscillating space that is as rich as it is discursive as it is rigorous.
*Catherine Dormor, Royal College of Art, UK*

Igoe has partnered her voice with a refreshingly original set of contributors who each move the discourse of textile design beyond generic design vocabulary through unapologetic narration of the personal and particular.
*Jessica Hemmings, University of Gothenburg, Sweden*

Igoe poetically layers the too-long unspoken words which locate the impulses that have driven generations of textile researchers and makers. The next generation can draw on this brilliant book to confidently amplify their political and personal matrixial voices.
*Rebecca Earley, University of the Arts London, UK*