History of Fashion

Animal products were used extensively in nineteenth-century Britain. A middle-class Victorian woman might wear a dress made of alpaca wool, drape h...

Inside the Westminster Menswear Archive is a unique guide to the role of garment archives as an industry resource for designers to research and exa...

The hidden life of the greatest surviving work of Inca artThe most celebrated Andean artwork in the world is a five-hundred-year-old Inca tunic mad...

Inside the Westminster Menswear Archive is a unique guide to the role of garment archives as an industry resource for designers to research and exa...

A wooden box holds the buttons of three generations of women in Lynn Knights family each one with its own tale to tell...Tracing the story of wome...

A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to the present, a time of extraordinary developments in colour science, philos...

A Cultural History of Color in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400. The medieval age saw an extraordinary burst of color - from illumina...

A Cultural History of Color in Antiquity covers the period 3000 BCE to 500 CE. Although the smooth, white marbles of Classical sculpture and archit...

A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920, when the world embraced color like never before. Inventions, suc...

A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800. From the Baroque to the Neo-classical, color transformed ar...

A Cultural History of Color in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1650, a time of change, conflict, and transformation. Innovations in color...

In 2005, two brothers with a background in the music industry decided to channel their love for sound into a different medium: fashion. Laurent and...

Gorgeously repackaged, this reissue of the classic book presents the iconic photographer's expert and witty reminiscences of the personalities who ...

A heavily illustrated classic on the evolution of the handloom.   The handloomoften no more than a bundle of sticks and a few lengths of cordagehas...

Textiles were the second-most-traded commodity in all of world history, preceded only by grain. In the Ottoman Empire in particular, the sale and e...