Textiles and Clothing

In the News . . .

• Google Arts & Culture: We Wear Culture, The Scout Report, Volume 23, Number 24, 16 June 2017
  
  
• In Late Antiquity Textiles, a Long-Lasting Fashion Show -- New York Times (14 March 2016)
  
  
• Oldest Known Dress Made More Than 5000 Years Ago -- Discovery News (18 February 2016)
  
  
• As Fashion Week Ends, Pondering the Origins of Clothes -- National Geographic News (11 September 2013)
  
  
• Who Invented Clothes? A Palaeolithic Archaeologist Answers -- Guardian (20 May 2013)
  
  
• Ancient piece of fabric from surprising source -- ScienceNordic (02 October 2012)
  
  
• Austrian nettle fabric tells of Bronze Age trade -- Past Horizons (29 September)
  
  
• Ancient Burial Shroud Made of Surprising Material -- Discovery News (28 September 2012)
  
  
• Coast Salish used dog hair in their weaving -- Past Horizons (11 November 2011)
  
  
• First Practical Scientific Test to Date and Authenticate Priceless Silk Masterpieces -- ScienceDaily (12 October 2011)
  
  
• Conservation team develops new technique for dating silk -- Past Horizons (13 September 2011)
  
  
• Virtual Museum of Textile Arts -- Arnaldo Caprai Gruppo Tessile Spa
  
  
• Textile Forum 2011: Linen and Other Vegetable Fibres -- Past Horizons (28 May 2011)
  
  
• Carbon Dating Identifies South America's Oldest Textiles -- EurekAlert (13 April 2011)
  
  
• Humans First Wore Clothing 170,000 Years Ago -- Discovery News (06 January 2011)

• All Sewn Up: Millinery, Dressmaking, Clothing, and Costume -- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
  
  
• Ancient Maya Tomb Yields "Amazing" Fabrics -- National Geographic News (25 April 2008)
  
  
• Archaeologists discover oldest-known fiber materials used by early humans-Flax fibers could have been used for warmth and mobility; for rope, baskets, or shoes -- EukekAlert (10 September 2009)
  
  
The Conner Prairie Museum Textile Collection -- Indiana University Purdue University Indiana (IUPUI)


• Fashioning Felt -- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
  
  
• Historic Threads: Three Centuries of Clothing -- Colonial Williamsburg Museum
  
  
• Rare Textiles From Honduras Ruins Suggests Mayans Produced Fine Fabrics Science Daily (5/5/08)
  
  
• Lice Hang Ancient Date on First Clothes -- Science News (20 April 2010)
  
  
• A Louse-y Start for Clothing -- Science News (20 April 2010)
  
  
• Lousy DNA Reveals When People First Wore Clothes -- Wired Science (20 April 2010)
  
  
• Most Ancient Coloured Twine Found -- BBC News (10 September 2009)
  
  
• 'Oldest leather shoe' discovered -- BBC News (10 June 2010)
  
  
• The Textile Collection -- Visual Arts Data Service (VASDS), University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
  
  
• The Textile Museum
  
  
• Textiles and Costumes -- Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington
  
  
• Textile World
  
  
• These Vintage Threads Are 30,000 Years Old -- NPR (10 September 2009)
  
  
• Weaving Art Museum and Research Institute
  
  
• Windham Textile & History Museum & Visitors Center -- Mill Museum of Connecticut

New analysis of fabric found in a royal Maya tomb show that Maya cloth rivaled the quality of modern textiles

(Photograph by Edgardo Sanabri; National Geographic images courtesy R. Sharer et al., Penn Museum's Early Copán Acropolis Program)