Art and Design: Textile Art, Design and Fashion

This site gives professional, emerging and student artists a free platform to showcase and sell their original artwork". The core of the website contains browsable artists' pages, grouped into the following categories: photography, illustration, painting, Web design, fine art, fashion, film and animation, graphic design, and product design. Artists can submit a statement and up to ten images, from which Artshole produces an individual Web page and promotes it via one or more of its categories.

This is the UK's national organisation for the promotion of contemporary crafts and applied arts.

Design-Nation is a membership organisation made up of designers, who are selected by an independent panel of industry professionals. Their work is shown on the website, which includes one illustration of a piece of work by each of the designers, and their full contact details. The designers can be selected by name or company name and they can also be browsed in the following categories: ceramics & glass; furniture; interior / exterior design & products; silver, gold, jewellery & metalwork; and textiles & fashion accessories.

The Ethical Fashion Forum (EFF) is the industry body for sustainable fashion, representing over 6000 members in more than 100 countries.

This resource guide to fashion history, contains over 100 pages on costume, textiles, clothing, cosmetics, perfume and social history. Detailed information is provided on fashion eras from the late 18th century to the present day. In addition there are plentiful links to sources of further information, including suggested books, organisations and museums.

This site offers thousands of pictures of the latest fashion collections from Milan, Paris, London and New York. Pictures of the most recent collections are available on a subscription only basis but photographs of past collections of over a hundred designers are freely browsable.

This Association was formed to foster worldwide interest in felt, to promote members' work and keep members in contact with one another for exchange of knowledge and ideas. Especially useful for keeping up-to-date with exhibitions in the UK and Europe

Founded in 1928, the Irish Linen Guild is the official promotional organization of the Irish Linen industry.

This is organised annually by the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum to recognise outstanding American designers. This website provides details about the awards, including a list of winners of the current, and previous, awards. Different categories of award exist, including American original, architecture design, fashion, product, landscape and interior design.

‘Reviving William Liddell’s Damask Designs’ concerns a unique collection of 1600 photographic glass plates discovered in 2007 during the dismantling of the Ewart-Liddell factory at Donacloney, County Down. The photographs document the design and development work for Liddell’s Damask patterns. This work represents the labour of highly skilled workforce of designers, draughtsmen and women and weavers working for the company during the years 1900's to 1970's. The project team from the Belfast School of Art, Ulster University comprises of Senior Research Fellow Trish Belford and Professor Barbara Dass.

The UK Fashion & Textile Association is the most inclusive British network for fashion and textile companies. UKFT brings together designers, manufacturers, agents and retailers to promote their businesses and our industry throughout the UK and internationally.

This online image database contains works and images from the V&A collections, covering objects including "ceramics, fashion, furniture, glass, metalwork, paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture and textiles". Items selected cover both those used in recent publications and less well known items and objects that, for various reasons, cannot be displayed permanently. The database can be searched by keyword, or using advanced features to search by object name, date, techniques, artist, place or museum number. Results provide high-quality images, accompanied by basic details and a description.

VADS is an online resource for visual arts, comprising over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research in the UK.

Leading online news & information service for the fashion / style industries. Offers access to all aspects of international style information including forecasting.

This online archive of modern and contemporary design history was created by the Design Museum and the British Council.

Founded by Zandra Rhodes, the mission of the museum is to exhibit the immense changes in contemporary fashion and textiles and educate a wide audience in the areas of fashion and textile design.

The section about the Collection, which has two methods of access. The 'Costume themes' section contains information and images on a range of themes within the collection, covering topics such as designers, clothes for work, recycled fashion, sexuality, underwear and close-up.

This collection focuses on fashionable dress for men, women and children from the late 16th century to the present day. The Museum of Costume was opened in the Bath Assembly Rooms in 1963. It was the creation of Doris Langley Moore, a designer, collector and historian, who gave her famous private collection of costume to the city.

Use the search facility to find information on fashion and textiles.

This resource brings together 1,200 hours of vivid video capturing the many faces of fashion—including nearly 40 years of worldwide fashion shows, designer profiles, documentary segments, and more—into one convenient online learning interface.

Leading online news & information service for the fashion / style industries. Offers access to all aspects of international style information including forecasting.