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Textile & Surface Design

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Finding Design Ideas

The FIT library offers great resources for studying textiles.  This guide points to basic sources for researching textile design and construction, historical and futuristic. These resources are chosen to teach history and inspire design. For more technical aspects of textiles, please see the guide for Textile Science.

 

Digital Databases Gallery

Berg Fashion Library

Berg Fashion Library

contains fashion specific dictionaries and encyclopedias.  It's a great place to get definitions and overviews on a topic.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Gale Virtual Reference Library

contains fashion specific dictionaries and encyclopedias.

Artstor

Artstor

has thousands of images from museum collections around the world.  You can browse by Country of Origin, Museum, Medium and Time Period.

Vogue Archive

Vogue Archive

Every issue from 1892-Current, including articles, ads, editorial content 

FITDIL: FIT Digital Image Library

FITDIL: FIT Digital Image Library

digital repository database of approximately 64,000 digital images intended for both research and instructional use by FIT students and faculty. Includes our designer files.

Harper's Bazaar Archive

Harper's Bazaar Archive

Harper's Bazaar (US): 1867-present
Harper's Bazaar (UK): April 1930 - Dec 1969
Harpers and Queen (UK): Nov 1970 - Feb 2006
Harper's Bazaar (UK): Mar 2006 - Dec 2015

Sources Available Online

Books for quick reference

Have a question or comment about these guides? Contact: libraryreference@fitnyc.edu