Textiles: Images, video and media
This guide brings together key resources to help you find information relating to Textiles courses.
Image Credit: BCU Assets
This page lists audio and visual resources from our collection, as well as freely available sources. You will find:
Please check the copyright restrictions on images before using them in your work as not every image will be licensed for use.
Film
- Bloomsbury Fashion Video ArchiveWatch from over 2,500 videos of fashion shows, with accompanying text, from London, Milan, New York and Paris between 1979 to 2003.
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Stream short and feature films from the British Film Institute's free archive collections. - Box of Broadcasts (BoB) This link opens in a new window
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Learning on Screen's on demand TV and radio service for education. - Kanopy This link opens in a new window
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Stream over 20,000 films and documentaries to watch.
- True Cost documentaryA documentary about the clothes we wear, the people who make them and the impact of the industry on our world.
Images
- Europeana FashionEuropeana Fashion brings together the digitised collections of more than 30 European public and private institutions.
- We Wear CultureSearchable archive of thousands of fashion collections from around the world. Visual and interactive content, exploring the stories behind clothes, fashion and its place in history.
- JSTOR ImagesImages on JSTOR are contributed by partnering institutions like universities, museums, and community and private collections including Artstor Digital Library.
- Vadsover 140,000 images from over 300 art and design collections in the UK, including fabric, clothing and jewellery images.
Museums and Galleries
- Fashion and Textile Museum, LondonFounded by iconic British designer Zandra Rhodes, the centre showcases a programme of changing exhibitions exploring elements of fashion and textiles as well as running a wide variety of creative courses and workshops for children, students and businesses.
- Fashion Museum, BathThe Museum holds a world-class collection of contemporary and historic dress, including 'Dress of the Year' from 1963 onwards ...
- Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonThe fashion collections span five centuries. Key items in the collection include rare 17th century gowns, 18th century ‘mantua’ dresses, 1930s eveningwear, 1960s daywear and post-war couture.