Textiles
- Crafts
Published by the Crafts Council, Crafts magazine offers news, reviews and opinion, alongside a selection of in-depth features, essays and critical debate. Crafts champions high-quality contemporary craft practice nationally and internationally, as well as its impact on social, economic and cultural life. - EcoTextile News
Online access to EcoTextile News, the environmental magazine for the global textile and clothing supply chain. Research covering world leading clothing brands and retailers and the most forward-thinking textile manufacturers and industry innovators. - MIX Magazine
Seasonal colour forecasting and design insights published by Colour Hive. Forecasts are given context through features and essays exploring the drivers behind the design directions. - Selvedge
Celebrates everything textiles, from the beautifully made & carefully considered. Read the most interesting and evocative textile stories.
🎨 Webinar - Digital Synaesthesia: Exploring Colour Trends with Alex Bell, Liaison Librarian. Access the Webinar.
🌍 Webinar - Researching Sustainability with Antonia Lewis, Senior Liaison Librarian. Access the Webinar.
🚺 Feminism reading list - check out the new Feminism reading list, which highlights resources on cyberfeminism, black and queer feminism and more! Click on the “table of contents” to view books that are related to fashion.
🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ reading list – have you seen the LGBTQ+ reading list, which highlights recommended resources available in the library? Click on the “table of contents” to view books that are related to fashion.
The library offers over 200,000 print and electronic books. Print books are arranged by shelf number, which are found using LibrarySearch and on the book binding, the most relevant numbers are -
| Subject | Shelf Number |
| Colour technology | 667 |
| Costume | 391 |
| Dyed textiles | 746.6 |
| Dyeing & printing | 667.3 |
| Embroidery | 746.44 |
| Fashion and culture | 391 |
| Fashion design | 746.92 |
| Interior structures | 729 |
| Knitting & yarn | 746.43 |
| Printed textiles | 746.6 |
| Sustainable fashion and textiles | 746.92028 |
| Textile art | 746 |
| Textile fibres | 677.1-5 |
| Textile history | 677.009 |
| Textile operations | 677.028 |
| Textiles by country | 746.09 |
| Weaving | 746.1 |
Journals provide up to date research in your area of study, they may be available in print or electronic format and can be found using LibrarySearch. A list of all current journals can be found using the Journals A-Z, the most relevant are -
- Clothing and Textile Research Journal
official journal of International Textile and Apparel Association Inc - EcoTextile News
The environmental magazine for the global textile and clothing supply chain. Research covering world leading clothing brands and retailers and the most forward-thinking textile manufacturers and industry innovators. - Journal of Textile Design, Research and Practice
Publishes advances on textile design and practice, as well as technologies, methods and education of textile design. - Journal of the Textile Institute
TJTI publishes innovative research and professional interests of the Textile Institution in science, engineering, economics, management and design. - Selvedge (Flipster)
For articles and images relating to all aspects of textiles research and practice. - Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture
Publishes research in textiles, cloth, and raw materials with their social, personal and cultural meanings. - Textile History
History of textiles, dress, clothing and apparel. - Textile Research Journal
Introduces new concepts, innovative technologies, and improved understanding of textile materials, processes, chemistry and systems.
Databases bring together specialist collections of articles, images and electronic books. A list of all current databases can be found using the Databases A-Z, the most relevant are -
- Art Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Indexes and provides the full text of journal articles on art, design, advertising, architecture, crafts, interior design, photography, textiles, television and video.
- Arts & Humanities Database This link opens in a new window
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Features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.
- Crafts Council This link opens in a new window
The Crafts Research Hub draws together research reports, blogs, conference proceedings and online discussion groups with links to academic research centres and major public sector research agencies.
- LS:N This link opens in a new window
LS:N Global is an online trend forecasting and consumer insight service used in industry, which tracks trends which are influencing consumer needs and brand buy-in. It includes text, image and video content.
- Unique Style Platform This link opens in a new window
Unique Style Platform is a world class forecasting service for the fashion and lifestyle industries, offering curated insights to inform the creative process and inspire innovation.
- V&A Collections: Textiles This link opens in a new window
Access to the V&A's national collection of textiles and fashion, which includes more than 75,000 individual objects or sets of objects that span a period of more than 5,000 years, from Predynastic Egypt to the present day.
- Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
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A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue, published in 1892, to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution colour page images.
- Vogue Business This link opens in a new window
An online fashion industry publication headquartered at Condé Nast in London, offering a global perspective on the fashion industry, exploring how cultural trends and global patterns will impact fashion businesses.
- WGSN This link opens in a new window
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WGSN is a world leading online research, trend analysis and news service for the fashion and style industry. See - Getting started with WGSN to learn more about how to setup and use WGSN.
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BoB is on demand TV and radio service for education which allows staff and students to record programmes from over 75 free-to-air channels; and search our archive of over 2.2 million broadcasts. See - Using BoB to learn more about how to setup and use BoB.
- Kanopy This link opens in a new window
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Kanopy is a video streaming service with a Netflix-style interface which can be accessed via the link above or using the Kanopy mobile app for Android and iOS.
Login required off campus to watch films (log in with your UCA details to create a Kanopy login). - Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive listing of UK television and radio broadcasts. Selected programmes of value to higher and further education are reviewed. Click the login button and select the University for the Creative Arts from the dropdown - you will then be taken to a login page.
- Asian Fashion Archive
The Asian Fashion Archive is a digital resource project highlighting Asian fashion, culture, and history.
- Bridgeman Education This link opens in a new window
Bridgeman Education is a complete visual resource offering over 800,000 digital images of art, history and culture from global museums, galleries, private collections and contemporary artists all copyright cleared for educational use.
- Britannica ImageQuest This link opens in a new window
Over 2.5 million rights-cleared and high quality images from 46 of the world's leading collections.
- The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Costumes and accessories for men, women, and children, from the fifteenth century to the present.
- Kyoto Costume Institute Digital Archives
Database of garments and accessories in the Kyoto Costume Institute, arranged in chronological order from the 1700s-2000s.
- We Wear Culture: Google Arts
Searchable archive of fashion collections, exploring the stories behind clothes, fashion and its place in history.
- Cloth Cultures
Through 4 fabrics - silk, linen, wool, cotton - fashion historian Amber Butchart explores threads of imperialism, telling a myriad of stories of movement, migration and making through cloth. - EcoTextile Talks
Exclusive Podcasts that tackle the crucial environmental issues impacting today’s global textile and clothing supply chains. Includes newscasts on sustainability, ethics, policy, retail, pollution and the carbon crisis engulfing our planet. - Material matters
Series of podcasts in which the eponymous host talks to a designer, maker, artist or architect about their relationship to a material or technique with which they’re intrinsically linked.
Archives offer access to rare and unique insight into the work of artists and creators, and often include original letters and artwork. Details of all the collections can be found in the ArchiveSearch, the most relevant for textiles are -
Materials LibraryA collection of material samples reflecting innovative material design and process samples used to explore material experimentation in design and creative practice.
Stuart Aitken Research Files
Technical fashion research notes illustrated pattern cutting and fashion and textile history covering the Architecture of Clothing 300AD to 1900AD and Architecture of Fashion from Modern to Postmodern.
Digitised files can be viewed in ResourceBank
