Clive HallettFabric for Fashion: The Swatch Book Revised Second Edition

Good book for a cloth designer!

Fabric for Fashion: The Swatch Book has been an invaluable resource for teaching my clients and students how to make informed online purchases by identifying fabric types. This book offers a comprehensive guide to fabric composition, helping individuals understand the texture, drape, and quality of materials before making a purchase. It’s perfect for anyone looking to elevate their wardrobe with better fabric choices. Highly recommend for fashion enthusiasts and professionals alike!

This book is amazing. As a sewer and costumer, I have to find certain types of fabrics for my projects. I also have to order many fabrics online now due to the lack of fabric stores in my area. If I am looking at fabrics online and don't know the difference between a silk organza, silk crepe de chine, or a silk georgette, I can look at the swatches in the book and read the descriptions and info and have a better idea if any of those fabrics would work for my project. I believe this has been used as a textbook for fashion majors, so it is a bit expensive, but totally worth it.

Does not cover modern fabric blends nor the blends one can buy online. I know the feel and quality of pure cotton, wool, silk, rayon and linen. I was hoping for swatches on linen blends, rayon blends, wool blends and cotton blends other than cotton/polyester. Even if the book additionally included swatches of only the top ten most popular fabric blends available online for home sewists, it would be a great improvement and much more useful.

A very good reference for a seamstress to select fabric. While not nearly every fabric offers swatches, those that are in the book provide a good comparison. I like to feel/handle the fabric. The swatches are small and it isn’t always easy to estimate the drape or hand. But this book is a wonderful reference.

I have always wanted a swatch book. This book is incredible. A huge help in my fabric education. Even includes the mysterious “ bamboo cloth.” And other manmade, new types of fabrics.