Illustrated Guide to Sewing Home Furnishings


Book Description

With the expert sewing techniques shared in this book, anyone can create home-made soft furnishings with a designer's flair.




The Soft Furnishings Book


Book Description

"He offers specific, easy-to-follow instructions for sewing tie-on dining chair covers that chichi caterers use. Other do-it-yourself highlights include directions for creating table napkins with zigzag borders, sofa cushions with scalloped edges, and roulea-edged pillowcases. Best of all, the instructions are accessible and use widely available materials. If you can't stitch a hem, you can always share this resourceful book with your favorite seamstress. All the ideas embrace Conran's signature contemporary, continental, and simple design ethos."--"Better Homes and Gardens."




The Home Furnishings Workbook


Book Description

An authoritive guide to solving all of your home furnishing problems with more than 100 professional techniques and 35 projects. From creating goblet-pleated curtains and a classic Roman blind to forming pinch pleats and tying curtain cords, this detailed book will guide you through the most simple and the most intricate of projects. Beginning with planning and design, this book has all the basics including: fitting, cutting, measuring, calculating, joining, stitching and pressing. And whether decorating the bedroom windows, adding floral chair covers in the kitchen or creating some cushions for the living room couch, Home Furnishings Workbook is a must have for every aspiring do-it-yourself decorator.




Home Furnishing


Book Description

This book focuses on the home textiles market and its products such as furnishings, floor coverings, carpets, curtains and draperies, living room furnishings, bed linens, kitchen linens, hospital linens, towels etc. The book discusses latest developments and future prospectus in the home textile industry. This book is useful for textile and fashion technology students, researchers, industry and textile engineers.




The Complete Book of Soft Furnishings


Book Description

An invaluable reference and hands-on book which shows how to achieve smart and stylish soft furnishings. It covers everything you need to know about planning, measuring, estimating fabric and making successful soft furnishings.




Know Your Home Furnishings


Book Description

A comprehensive resource for understanding the categories of consumer goods for the home and the raw products utilized to make them, Know Your Home Furnishings, Second Edition, enables students to understand the major categories of home furnishings and the diverse consumer demand for fashionable and functional products. This new edition is up-to-date with all the latest industry trends and important people. With new material covering kitchenware, electronics, window treatments, and historical furniture, Know Your Home Furnishings is more indispensable than ever.




Encyclopedia of Furnishing Textiles, Floorcoverings and Home Furnishing Practices, 1200-1950


Book Description

The main aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive reference work of products and their uses in the area of furnishing textiles, interior furnishings and floorcoverings used in domestic interiors. The emphasis is on British and American domestic textiles and furnishings, and the consumption of them over the period 1200-1950.




The Art of Home Furnishing and Decoration


Book Description

"The Art of Home Furnishing and Decoration" by Frank Alvah Parsons|Armstrong Cork Company|Kathleen Clinch Calkins. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.