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| Grove Dictionary of Art (UW Faculty, Staff, Students only) | Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with ongoing additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links |
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| SYMBOLS.com | Contains
more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according
to their graphic characteristics. 1,600 articles on their histories, uses, and meanings |
| World Wide Art Resources | Covers contemporary art and features art news, art history, and contemporary artist and gallery portfolios. |
| Virtual Library museums pages | Directory of museum websites |
| R.L. Shep Publications | a bibliography of books Shep has reprinted or published and links to museums and costume organizations |
| The Costume Page: Costuming Resources Online | Julie Zetterberg's Homepage offers a bibliography, links to museums, research organizations, events, schools & instruction |
| Costume Gallery Website | The Costume Gallery researches for a fee historic costumes for private individuals, authors, designers, theatre, film and television. The Costume Gallery is located in Richmond, Virginia, USA, fondly called "Costume Heaven". Location and accessability are two key factors in research. The Costume Gallery has access to several universities (costume collections & libraries), state libraries, national archives & museum collections. |
| Costume Ring | Site includes clothing of theatre, film; or mask costume; national, folk or traditional costume, and historical costume. This is a resource for people looking for costume information, instructions etc. It is NOT meant as a directory for people looking for costumes to buy or rent. Commercial sites are referred to the Garb'n'Frock Ring. |
| Milieux: The Costume Site | Includes: images, museums, theatrical sites, accessories, etc. Site also focuses on laces and textile. |
| The Costumer's Manifesto | Offers extensive historical, geographical breakdown of costume history as well as: accessories, uniforms, costume shops, dyeing, etc. |
| Davis Art Slides | Slide sets on costume history, arms & armour, hats & headdress. Slides some from museums and can be purchased individually or as a set. They are handling slides from the Costume Institute in the Metropolitan Museum of New York. |
| The Garb'n' Frock Ring | Commercial costume,
costuming, sewing etc. sites dealing in:
custom costumers, fabric shops, suppliers of re-enactment articles
etc. The conditions are that there must be at least one page about
period or ethnic costume or a directly related subject. The ring
fragment should be no more than two clicks away from the costume
page(s) and easily found. Not limited to commercial sites; private and non-profit pages welcome. |
| Web Gallery of Art | Over 9,000 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800. Supplemented with commentary on their technique and history and biographical information. Navigation options include: guided thematic tours, a quick index (with artist's names listed), an artist's index (giving more detailed information), and a search engine. The images are expandable from their thumbnail catalog size and feature width and height-to-frame options and enlarge or reduce from 100 percent choices. |
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| The History of Costume: Index - c.1861-1880 | A book which appears frequently on the internet; published by Braun & Schneider |
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| Medieval Drama Links | Sydney Higgins has a homepage on Medieval costume for men and women, footwear. Includes general information, illustrations, instructions on how to construct clothing, and glossary of terms. |
| Ravensgard Costuming and Textiles Page | Oriented towards Medieval and Renaissance costuming, Tapestry and Textile |
| Sara's ChainMail Connection | Site includes: patterns, beginners' instructions, how to take care of mail armor, mail history, wire gauge conversion and how to anodize wire; links to other sites; and FAQ. |
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| Elizabethan Costume Page | Includes makeup, hats, hair styles, underpinnings, and general costume history information as well as patterns, accessories and fabric; costumes from other countries of the same period; bibliography; and costume suppliers. |
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| Colonial Williamsburg: Eighteenth Century Clothing | Site includes women's, men's, and childen's clothing and millinery's shop. Site also includes links to furniture and props and pages on tradespeople and social history. |
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| Regency Fashion Page | Site includes bibliography, portraits, links to other sites museum, association, reenactment author page provides sites on authors of the time period. |
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| The Beverly Birks Collection of Haute Couture | |
| Fashion Plate Collection | This collection includes 417 fashion plates from 1806-1914 from some of the leading fashion journals of the times: La Belle assemblee, Le Bon ton, Le Follet, courrier des salons, Journal des dames et des modes, Godey's lady's book and magazine and others. The hand-colored illustrations cover many stylistic periods in French and English history. These styles overlapped as the fashions and tastes changed. These include the Empire (1806-1813), Georgian (1806-1836), Regency (1811-1820), Romantic (1825-1850), Victorian (1837-1859), Late Victorian (1860-1900) and Edwardian (1901-1915). |
| FirstView Collections Online | Online collection of photos from fashion shows back to the 90's for some designers; access is free to all but the most recent collections |
| Internet Centre for Canadian Fashion and Design - NTG International Inc.- FASHION | Textile Dictionary |
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| Arms & Armor | 170 replicas of weapons & armor includes swords, rapiers, daggers, axes, knives, helmets & garnitures. Site also includes: catalog, links to suppliers, reenactment sites, combat sites, and other sites of interest. |
| Military Costume and Armor Links | Consists primarily of links to other arms pages. |
| Fantasy Weapons | UK store featuring swords, daggers, knives, axes and other types of weaponry used in film and television |
| Swords and Armor | Features Swords and weaponry from medieval and civil war periods; links to period decor |
| Uniformology | Publisher of uniform plates. "Reproduction military uniform prints covering the 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th Centuries. |
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| Codpiece International | Includes catalog, gallery of historical codpieces, and debate on bringing back the codpiece |
| One Wilde Knight Clothing Design | Specializing in custom corsets, costumes, leather and studwork |
| Period Corsets | Costumes for Film and Stage |
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| La Bonneterie | Regency, Gothic & Victorian millinery |
| From the Neck Up | Website for the book From the Neck Up which includes a list of millinary suppliers with links when available and a list of links to sites with information about hats or which sell hats. |
| Victorian Millinery | Retail site with Civil War era and contemporary hats. |
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| The Costumer's Manifesto: Shoe Links | ara Maginnis' site provides links and information on history, how to make, supplies, books, etc. |
| Footwear of the Middle Ages | Marc Carlson's history and development of footwear and shoemaking techniques |
| Schuh-Homepage Herzlich willkommen | Patrick Seehaber's German language site with excellent illustrations |
| Solemates: The Century in Shoes | Each decade from the 1900's to the 1990's has illustrated introductory essay, six examples of representative footwear that can be examined in detail, period advertisements, and Quicktime clips of "Scenes from the Decade". Includes timeline of great moments in shoe history & three special features: Dangerous Shoes, Ga-Ga for Gaza, and Ruby Slippers. |
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| The Bay Area English Regency Society (BAERS) | Focus is the early nineteenth century |
| Friends of the English Regency (Los Angeles, CA | Has held Regency dances for more than twenty years. They hold monthly "drums" and a fall ball. Site has a bibliography. |
| Ring of Steel | Educational organization founded in 1989 dedicated to developing and promoting the art of stage violence |
| The
Society for Creative Anachronism: SCA An Tir: US: Oregon, Washington, the northern tip of Idaho, Canada: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, the Yukon, and the Northwest Territories |
International
organization dedicated to researching and recreating pre-17th-century
European history. Interested in history, social life and customs,
costume, weaponry, heraldry, and the art of combat. Society for Creative Anachronism |
| 18th Century Social Dance Tapestry Regency Dance 19th century Ballroom Dance |
Tapestry Historic Dance Ensemble is a dance troupe that performs Colonial, Regency and Victorian programs at historic sites and special events in the greater Philadelphia region. |
| The Georgian Society (Albuquerque, NM | Monthly dance practices, and occasional balls. Though they focus on the dances of the Regency, but also have mid-late 18th century and early 19th century. Either form of dress is welcome at their functions. |
| Period Events & Entertainments Re-Creation Society: PEERS | Dedicated to remembering, researching, and re-creating the performing arts of the past |
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| Amazon Drygoods | Historic patterns, shoes, and window treatments. |
| Costume Society of Great Britain | Publishes Costume and biannual newsletter; symposium, workshops, and visits to collections, exhibitions and archives |
| Costume Society of America | Publishes in the following areas: costume history, fashion design, museum studies, theatrical design, vintage clothing, & wearable art; also publishes costume related material in: anthropology, art history, gender studies, human ecology, living history, history, social history, social life & customs, and sociology |
| Harper House | Patterns circa 650 A.D. - 1950. Carries Folkware patterns as well as books by R. L. Shepp |
| From the Neck Up: An Illustrated Guide to Hatmaking by Denise Dreher | Published by Madhatter Press |
| Past Patterns | Historical patterns 1830-1939. Victorian" patterns sized to fit the modern figure; "Vintage Revivals" copies of original patterns published by American pattern companies between 1900 and 1940. |
| Patterns of Time: A Clothier's Guild for the complete costumer | Extensive
line of Patterns, trims, and accessories, as well as ready
to wear and custom made costumes. Concentration on 10th through
17th century, women and men's costumes; includes upper class
and peasant costume, Gypsies, pirates. Hundreds of Patterns in stock from such makers as Period Patterns, MoiRandall, Alteryears, Nuada Succellus, Laughing Moon Mercantile, Costume Connection, Past Patterns, Fantasy Fashion, Wingeo, Folkwear and others. |
| Textile Society of America: TSA | Publishes newsletters, conference proceedings, as well as pamphlets and books. |
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| Chris Parsons' Lace Bobbins Page | Commercial supplier of hand turned & hand painted Lace Bobbins and Tatting Shuttles |
| ForteStage Combat | Sales and rental of stage combat equipment |