Resources for costume, textile arts, and fashion studies.

Welcome to the Textile Arts Archive at Portland State University! This crowd-sourced digital archive is intended as a resource for inspiration and research for interdisciplinary investigations of textiles and clothing. We invite you to browse for inspiration, research, or just for joy!

Categories include:

• Links to Artists and Designers working in textile arts/costume design.
• Sources for fabrics, Textile Materials and Equipment for sale, both online and in-person.
• An archived list of significant ****Textile Exhibitions, Lectures and Events, ****with links to recordings.
• Museum Textile Collections and open-source **Research Databases ****from around the world. ******
• Textile Businesses and Companies with sustainable/inclusive practices.
• More for textile studies, like organizations and schools.

OVERVIEW:

This archive exists to increase recognition of the role textiles and fiber processes play in our social fabric.  It aims to counteract the historical marginalization of textile studies in academic institutions, and its undervaluation in society.

GOALS:

• Provide a platform for critical engagement around the topics of clothing/textiles
• Enable cross disciplinary approaches and understandings of textile-related processes
• Promote new and expanded contexts for where textile work lives
• Recognize the diverse cultures involved in textile-making
• Break down gendered/colonial assumptions around the study of clothing and textiles to support a more inclusive community of scholars/makers
• Create a collective canon that can serve as a meaningful resource for scholars and practitioners