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WRI 141/142: Fashioning the Self: Fashion-related websites

Guide for help using the library during the writing seminar, with some specialized resources mentioned.

Relevant websites

Blue: The Tatter Textile Library
Home to books, journals, exhibition catalogs, and objects that relate to all aspects of textiles.
Craftivist Collective, The
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
"...with a particular focus on Early America."
Disarming Design from Palestine
Fair World Project
Fashion & Textiles research (list of resources)
Fashion History Timeline (FIT)
NYC: paper and object-based institutions on fashion and costume
Oral history interviews (Bard Graduate Center)
Interviews of contemporary craftspeople, artists & designers
Quilt Index
Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996 (LOC)
Resources: Decorative Arts, Crafts and Design Special Interest Group (Art Libraries Society of NA)
Tatter
An organization and library focused on cloth and textiles.
Textile Arts Database (Portland State Univ.)
Textile Scholarship (Textile Museum, Wash DC)