Textile Design Theory in the Making

Abstract

Textile design inhabits a liminal space spanning art, design and craft. This book explores how textile design bridges the decorative and the functional, and takes us from handcrafting to industrial manufacture. In doing so, it distinguishes textiles as a distinctive design discipline, against the backdrop of today’s emerging design issues. With commentaries from a range of international design scholars, the book demonstrates how design theory is now being employed in diverse scenarios to encourage innovation beyond the field of design itself. Positioning textiles within contemporary design research, Textile Design Theory in the Making reveals how the theory and practice of textile design exist in a synergistic, creative relationship. Drawing on qualitative research methods, including auto-ethnography and feminist critique, the book provides a theoretical underpinning for textile designers working in interdisciplinary scenarios, uniting theory and texts from the fields of anthropology, philosophy, literature and material design.

Introduciendo la estética sensorial de los materiales en la enseñanza del diseño textil

“…This opens to other sensory dimensions of materials for textile design such as smell, sound, humidity, magnetic force, and other sensorial discoveries that go beyond the visual and tactile. This enacts textile thinking as a contemporary approach to textile design that employs interdisciplinary methods of design and knowledge-making beyond conventional approaches (Igoe, 2021). As a result, novel design possibilities may open up, forging new pathways in students' textile design explorations.…”