Directory of digitized periodicals related to textiles. Currently includes 34 periodicals from 11 countries, with a total of approx. 5010 issues available, as well as 35 digitized textile collections and 2 textile catalogs, all free to access at time of listing. Dates correspond to the issues available digitized in the links. Feel free to send me things to add, and please let me know if a link is no longer functional. 

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Textile Periodicals

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• Journal für Fabrik, Manufaktur, Handlung und Mode, 1796. German. Included a fabric sample in each issue.

• L'Écho de la fabrique, 1831-1834. French silk journal.

• Textile Colorist, 1879-1922. American.

• Le Textile de Lyon, 1880-1881. French

• Bulletin des Soies et Soieries, 1881-1945. French.

• Journal of Fabrics and Textile Industries, 1882-1890. English.

• Irish Textile Journal, 1882-1894. Irish.

• Fibre & Fabric: a record of American textile industries in the cotton and woolen trade, 1886-1922. American.

• La Bordadora, 1892. Spanish. Embroidery and needlework journal.

• Le Moniteur des Soies, 1895-1902. French silk journal.

• Zeitschrift für die gesamte Textil-Industrie, 1897-1902. German.

• The American Silk Journal, 1898-1922. American.

• Yokohama kiito bōeki gaikyō, 1899-1920. Japanese silk trade journal.

• Revue Textile, 1903-1914. French.

• Textile World Record, 1904-1910. English.

• Cataluña Textil, 1906-1926. Spanish.

• Chronique technique de l'Association générale des chimistes de l'industrie textile, 1910-1917. French.

• America's Textile Reporter, 1910-1922. American.

• Journal of the Textile Institute, 1910-1927. English.

• Textile World, 1913-1922. American.

• Du Pont Magazine, 1913-1926. American.

• The Textile Worker, 1912-1926. American. Magazine of the United Textile Workers of America.

• Canadian Textile Journal, 1917-1921. Canadian.

• Eco de la industria: revista de manufacturas textiles, 1918-1925. Spanish. 

• La Soierie de Lyon, 1918-1935. French. Journal of the Syndicat des fabricants de soieries de Lyon.

• Revue générale de l'industrie textile, 1919-1923. French.

• Textilberichte über Wissenschaft, Industrie und Handel, 1920-1922. German.

• Skandinavisk tidskrift för texilindustri, 1921-1925. Swedish.

• The Indian Textile Journal, 1924-1926. Indian.

• Newsletter of the Fédération internationale des syndicats ouvriers de l'industrie textile, 1938-1939. French.

• Warp & Weft, 1947-1985. American.

• Modern Textiles, 1956-1983. American. B/w microfilm version. Title changed to Modern Textile Business in Oct. 1981.

• American Fabrics, Fall 1958. American. Internet Archive has b/w microfilm versions from 1947-1972 as well.

• International Textiles, 1975-1980. Dutch with English text. B/w microfilm version.

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Textile Catalogs

 

• Costume Color Council Presents: Costume Color Families for Fall, 1950. American.

• Schumacher's Taliesin Line of Decorative Fabrics and Wallpapers Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1955. American.

 

Collections, Etc.

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• A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes. Digital component of the 2023 exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt.

• ADASilk. Aggregator for silk-related objects in 22 museum collections.

• American Textile History Museum. Digital library of the now-defunct museum in Lowell, MA.

• Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois.

• The British Museum. London, England.

• Budapest Museum of Applied Arts. Hungarian fashion and textiles.

• Cameo. The materials database of the Boston MFA, with information on textile objects from collections around the globe. Handy when you're in microscope mode doing fiber analysis.

• Cheney Brothers Silk. Digitized company materials in the collection of the University of Connecticut.

• Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH. 

• De Young Museum. San Francisco, CA.

• Europeana. Aggregator for European collections, funded by the European Union.

• Hagley Digital Archives. Materials related to textiles in the DuPont estate.

• Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection. University of Wisconsin.

• The Lace Museum of Los Angeles. Their virtual exhibitions.

• LACMA Textile Collection. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

• Larsen: A Living Archive. An archive of work by American textile designer, Jack Lenor Larsen.

• Mary Ann Beinecke Collection. Digitized collection of textile and dec. arts books owned by weaver and author, Mary Ann Beinecke, at the Clark.

• Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY.

• Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, MA.

• Museo del Tessuto. Prato, Italy.

• Museos de la Seda. Essays on the nature of various different silk museums, from a conference hosted by the Museum of Silk at the The College of High Silk Art in Valencia, Spain.

• Museo Tèxtil. Terrassa, Spain.

• Natural History Museum. Los Angeles, CA.

• Old Sturbridge Village. Massachusetts.

• Palazzo Fortuny. Venice, Italy. Museum dedicated to the designs of Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo.

• Philadelphia Museum of Art.

• RISD. Rhode Island School of Design.

• SilkMemory. Archive database of the Lucerne School of Art and Design, plus digitised text and image sources related to silk from the Canton of Zurich.

• Tapestry. Thomas Jefferson University's collection of textile samples.

• ​Textielmuseum Collection. Tilburg, Netherlands.

• The Textile Museum Collection. George Washington University.

• ULITA International Textile Collection. University of Leeds.

• University of Wisconsin-Madison. Digitized books related to textiles in their library collections.

• Victoria & Albert Museum. Textile and Embroidery Collections.

• Visions Museum of Textile Art. Database of current textile artists.

• Windham Textile and History Museum. Willimantic, CT.

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