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.