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Costume: Books

Useful class numbers

Clothing manufacture 687

Costume design 791.43026 / 792.026

Costume figure drawing 741.672

Fashion design 746.92

Fashion illustration 741.672

Textiles (manufacturing and processes) 677 

Textile art, design and craft 746

Film and television 791.4

Theatre, dance and opera 792

 

Introduction to ebooks videos

Bloomsbury Fashion Central

Berg Fashion Library

Berg Fashion Library is the leading resource for students and researchers of fashion studies. Interdisciplinary in nature, with great visual and integrated content, it is invaluable for researchers in the areas of fashion, museum studies, cultural studies, anthropology, and more.

Fairchild Books Library

An essential resource covering the entire range of fashion education from the creative to corporate, Fairchild Books Library offers content that covers a full spectrum of topics in fashion including construction, draping, fashion business management, history, illustration, journalism, marketing, promotion, theory, pattern making, styling, product development, sustainable fashion, textiles, and more.

Dress and Costume Library

The first comprehensive online collection for the interdisciplinary study of dress and costume history, design and making.

It brings together a wealth of essential resources – many of which are available exclusively in digital format – including primary source material, authoritative scholarly books and reference works, practical costume-making guides, exclusive overview articles, and videos analysing garments in detail, together with a timeline of costume through the ages. Students and researchers of dress history, film and theatre costume, costume design and construction will find a rich array of material to support their work.