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The world of textiles told with a contemporary and design-oriented perspective through 130 fabrics: a visual and bilingual (Italian-English) guide for professionals and students in the fields of fashion, design, and textiles.

This book places fabric as the absolute protagonist, highlighting it as a precious and irreplaceable raw material that gives rise to fashion. For this reason, the selection is mainly based on samples collected from luxury Made in Italy companies.

The volume stands out for its practical and intuitive approach: each fabric is presented through a photograph showing both the front and the back of the sample, conveying the full visual and tactile richness of the material.

The data sheets, organized over double pages with multiple fabric proposals, clearly and immediately present all the essential information: weave, weight, hand, ideal uses in fashion, sustainability, price range, and many other characteristics, easily recognizable thanks to a system of recurring symbols.

It is an indispensable tool designed for professionals in the Fashion, Luxury, and Design sectors, as well as for students of Fashion Design, Fashion Styling, and Fashion Business.

Contents: Preface. Introduction. Guide to consultation – The fabrics. Guide to understanding fabrics – The hand: visual and tactile perception – Key factors in fabric selection. The fabrics: the data sheets. Fundamental weaves. Plain weave – Twill weave – Satin weave – Other fabrics. Jacquard fabrics – Openwork fabrics – Fabrics with hairy surfaces – Linings and interlinings – Knitted fabrics – Non-woven fabrics. Patterns, finishes, decorations, and textile manipulations. Appendices.

Andrea Caraffini, the face of White Ghost Shop and a point of reference for a vast community of over 250,000 enthusiasts, guides you step by step in discovering DIY tools.

“I Make Things” is not a manual that teaches you how to solve a specific problem, but a guide that provides the foundations to tackle any project with confidence, so you can finally say, “I did it myself.” With the right tools and proper knowledge, anything becomes possible.

Divided into 8 themed sections and organized into illustrated cards: each tool is described simply, with explanatory images and Andrea’s friendly, immediately applicable advice.

For DIY enthusiasts, the new generation of makers, and the curious who don’t know where to start.

Illustrated Fashion is a fully visual volume in three languages – Italian, English and French – designed as a handy reference guide for specific fashion design terms.

With over 2,000 entries and 1,500 technical illustrations, the book is aimed primarily at fashion students and designers, as well as fashion enthusiasts wishing to expand their vocabulary. It includes all the most common clothing-related terms sorted by item. The highly detailed illustrations focus on different clothing features, such as necklines, pockets and sleeves, all of which are thoroughly examined in the appendix.

The book has been designed both as a handbook and a source of inspiration for new hybrid clothing items or fresh takes on the classics.

A book to make you skilled in this profession, which tells about the ancient tradition of body art, new regulations, tools, techniques and execution procedures for would-be tattooists and piercers.

To be able to work in this field in Italy, it is required a certificate which is received by passing a regional test; all the topics involved in the test are thoroughly examined in this book.

The book is divided into 5 sections, with the following features: an extensive chapter focused on drawing and art techniques; historical and current windows of analysis (e.g. rules to comply with in shops to avoid coronavirus); theoretical and practical tests and final exercises; interviews with two of the world’s best-known tattooists: Thomas Carli Jarlier and Matteo Pasqualin.

The largest section focuses on the world of tattooing, works of art on skin which are analysed in detail in these pages and described with their technical innovations and the follow-up to being tattooed. Next is the study of the skin and sanitary rules and regulations for the profession and when opening a shop, and the world of piercing and permanent makeup.

This is a guide to Milan’s Monumental Cemetery, Italy’s largest open-air museum, with over 100,000 visitors every year.

In its over 150 years of existence it has become the “city of the dead” for Milan’s most prominent figures, who summoned the most famous sculptors and architects of their time to eternalise themselves and their descendants.

Today, many of these great families have been forgotten; nevertheless, the sculptures of artists such as Vincenzo Vela, Medardo Rosso, Adolfo Wildt, Lucio Fontana, Giacomo Manzù and Giò Pomodoro, as well as the funerary chapels of architects such as Piero Portaluppi, Mario Labò, Giulio Cesare Arata and other lesser-known architects still stand proud. The range of architectural styles is quite remarkable.

The guide is organised into thematic itineraries. It is indispensable for finding your way around and reaching monuments of great artistic and civic importance, as well as for spending a few pleasant hours in the open air, away from the chaos of the big city.

A garden can be a vital ecosystem for the wellbeing of the planet and of humankind. This is a simple guide to the use of effective natural practices and a valid support for fledgling vegetable growers.

The first section is broader in scope and lays out the principles for natural horticulture and enables you to identify the best vegetable combinations, make and maintain the soil fertile, establish how much water is needed and how to distribute it, defend your plants from parasites, prepare the seedbed, decide when to seed and bed out, and how to turn your balcony or terrace into a vegetable garden.

The second section consists of a series of files featuring the common plant names, some historical background, tips for choosing the most suitable varieties and how to cultivate them (tilling, spacing, harvesting, defending from parasites), how to select the appropriate soil and set optimal germination and growth temperatures; cooking tips and a list of health benefits are also provided.

Each file comes with charts, diagrams and pictures.