Craft of Use
Title | Craft of Use PDF eBook |
Author | Kate Fletcher |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 353 |
Release | 2016-02-26 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 1317297814 |
This book explores the ‘craft of use’, the cultivated, ordinary and ingenious ideas and practices that promote satisfying and resourceful use of garments, presenting them as an alternative, dynamic, experiential frame with which to articulate and foster sustainability in the fashion sector. Here Kate Fletcher provides a broad imagining of sustainability in fashion that gives attention to tending and wearing garments, and favours their use as much as their creation. She offers a diversified view of fashion beyond the market and the market’s purpose and reveals fashion provision and expression in a world not dependent on continuous consumption. Framing design and use as a single whole, the book uncovers a more contingent and time-dependent role for design in sustainability, recognising that garments, while sold as a product, are lived as a process. Drawing from stories and portrait photography that document the ways in which members of the public from across three continents use their clothes, and the work of seven international design teams seeking to amplify these use practices, Craft of Use presents a changed social narrative for fashion, borne out of ideas of satisfaction and interdependence, of action, knowledge and human agency, that glimpses fashion post-growth.
The Craft of Model-Based Testing
Title | The Craft of Model-Based Testing PDF eBook |
Author | Paul C. Jorgensen |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Total Pages | 434 |
Release | 2017-05-08 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1351792636 |
In his latest work, author Paul C Jorgensen takes his well-honed craftsman’s approach to mastering model-based testing (MBT). To be expert at MBT, a software tester has to understand it as a craft rather than an art. This means a tester should have deep knowledge of the underlying subject and be well practiced in carrying out modeling and testing techniques. Judgment is needed, as well as an understanding of MBT the tools. The first part of the book helps testers in developing that judgment. It starts with an overview of MBT and follows with an in-depth treatment of nine different testing models with a chapter dedicated to each model. These chapters are tied together by a pair of examples: a simple insurance premium calculation and an event-driven system that describes a garage door controller. The book shows how simpler models—flowcharts, decision tables, and UML Activity charts—express the important aspects of the insurance premium problem. It also shows how transition-based models—finite state machines, Petri nets, and statecharts—are necessary for the garage door controller but are overkill for the insurance premium problem. Each chapter describes the extent to which a model can support MBT. The second part of the book gives testers a greater understanding of MBT tools. It examines six commercial MBT products, presents the salient features of each product, and demonstrates using the product on the insurance premium and the garage door controller problems. These chapters each conclude with advice on implementing MBT in an organization. The last chapter describes six Open Source tools to round out a tester’s knowledge of MBT. In addition, the book supports the International Software Testing Qualifications Board’s (ISTQB®) MBT syllabus for certification.
The Craft of Bookbinding
Title | The Craft of Bookbinding PDF eBook |
Author | Manly Banister |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | 164 |
Release | 2012-08-03 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 0486152456 |
Profusely illustrated step-by-step guide to binding books, paperbacks, periodicals. Instructions for sewing, making endpapers, attaching headbands, adding covers, titling, much more. Updated list of suppliers. 254 illustrations.
The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation
Title | The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation PDF eBook |
Author | Trevor Owens |
Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | 239 |
Release | 2018-12-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1421426978 |
Based on extensive reading, research, and writing on digital preservation, Owens's work will prove an invaluable reference for archivists, librarians, and museum professionals, as well as scholars and researchers in the digital humanities.
Humans, Animals, and the Craft of Slaughter in Archaeo-Historic Societies
Title | Humans, Animals, and the Craft of Slaughter in Archaeo-Historic Societies PDF eBook |
Author | Krish Seetah |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 281 |
Release | 2018-10-25 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108428800 |
This book conceptualizes butchery as an expression of technological knowledge and culture embedded in action, defining the human-animal relationship.
The Art & Craft of Pyrography
Title | The Art & Craft of Pyrography PDF eBook |
Author | Lora S. Irish |
Publisher | Fox Chapel Publishing |
Total Pages | 147 |
Release | 2012-07-01 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 1607659085 |
Although it is often referred to as woodburning, the art of pyrography can be worked on just about any natural surface, including gourds, leather, or cotton rag paper. Now Lora Irish, the author of the bestselling Great Book of Woodburning, offers thirty-five amazingly detailed new projects that explore the craft of pyrography across the full range of inventive pyro media. Inside her new book, readers will learn the basics of pyrography systems, tools, supplies and practice boards. Differences between the various substrates are examined and discussed, including both wood and non-wood working surfaces. Irish provides expert advice on temperature settings, fill patterns, hand positions, textures, stroke patterns and more. Chapters are included on creating tonal values, understanding shadows, adding color to your burnings, and finishing the work. Thirty-five new patterns illustrate the application of fine pyrography across a wide variety of imaginative media, including vegetable tanned leather, dried gourds, cotton fabric, artist paper, chipboard and papier-mâché. Irish is known for her amazingly detailed patterns that positively exude expression, and this book does not disappoint. Each fascinating project includes complete instructions plus photographs of both the finished piece and the work-in-progress across pale, medium, dark and detailed stages.
The Art & Craft of Making Jewelry
Title | The Art & Craft of Making Jewelry PDF eBook |
Author | Joanna Gollberg |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | 184 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9781579905705 |
An overview of contemporary jewelry-making techniques for studio artists.