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Textile/ Fashion Design Websites
Ethnic
Costumes
http://www.costumes.org/pages/ethnolnk.htm
The Costumers Manifesto.
Ethnic costume and textile links. Extensive portal site.
Art
Dictionary
http://www.artlex.com/
An art dictionary with visuals and links.
Designer
Sites
http://www.ntgi.net/ICCF&D/index2.htm
Internet Center for Canadian Fashion and Design. The site is organized into
a textile dictionary, fashion glossary, and links to many other fashion and
design sites.
Victorian
Designers and Manufacturers
http://65.107.211.206/art/design/textiles/textileov.html
The Fine Arts Society of London offers information and images on textile designers
and manufactures from the Victorian Web.
1950-1960's
Fashion
http://i5ive.com/linkcategory.cfm/13524/25470
Fashion history and style guide to the 1950's and 1960's.
Contemporary
and Historical Fashion
http://www.library.unt.edu/subjects/art/All%20other%20subject%20guides/CostumeFashion.htm#Internet
Internet links compiled by the University of North Texas Libraries which include
both contemporary and historical sites on fashion.
Textile
Organizatons
http://www.itds.treas.gov/Textileprofile.html
The International Trade Data System provides an overview of governmental and
external textile organizations.
Textile
Industry/News
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/department/te/Links.html
Auburn University links to textile sites and trade news.
Textile
Production
http://www.apparelkey.com
Good explanations of many basic processes in the production of textiles.
Fashion
Designers, Trends
http://www.fashionwindows.com/fashion_designers/
An extensive list of links to fashion designers (with biographies), reviews
of fashion shows, news, trends, stores and boutiques.
International
Tapestries Rugs Embroideries
http://www.marlamallett.com/
Marla Mallett Textiles. An online display of more than 1400 photos of tapestries
and other textiles from around the world, as well as information on structure
and techniques. Links to dozens of related sites.
European
Textile Industry
http://www.fibreartsonline.com/
Extensive links to textiles, ethnic costumes, crafts, business directories.
The European Textile Network,
History
of Costume by Brown & Schneider
http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/history.html
Southern Illinois
University hosts this site excerpted from a Dover Publications book, Historic
Costumes in Pictures. The plates show historical dress from antiquity to the
19th century, with a Victorian perspective.
Computer
Textile Design Group
http://www.ctdg.nildram.co.uk/home.htm
Samples from the journal Design-It and a links page by the Computer Textile
Design Group of the UK, which includes online subscription courses, as well
as exhibits and other organizations.