Links

Museums

Blandford Fashion Museum
www.theblandfordfashionmuseum.com

British Airways Museum Collections including the BA Heritage Uniform Collection
www.bamuseum.com

Brighton Museum
www.brighton-hove-rpml.org.uk/museums/brightonmuseum/pages/home.aspx

The Olive Matthews Collection, Chertsey Museum.
www.chertseymuseum.org.uk

Dorset County Museum, Dorchester
www.dorsetcountymuseum.org

Farnham Museum
www.farnhammaltings.com

Fashion and Textile Museum
www.ftmlondon.org

Hampshire Cultural Trust
www.hctcollections.org.uk

Horsham Museum
www.horshammuseum.org  

Horsham Museum “Big Dress” Project 2008
https://www.horshammuseum.org/collections/costume 

Museum of London
www.museumoflondon.org.uk

National Museum of Scotland / costume
http://www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of-scotland/discover-the-museum/new-galleries/

Petersfield Museum
www.petersfieldmuseum.co.uk

Southside House, Wimbledon
www.southsidehouse.com

Victoria & Albert Museum, London
www.vam.ac.uk

Worthing Museum
www.worthingmuseum.co.uk

Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture ( Middlesex University)

https://moda.mdx.ac.uk/

The Crafts Study Centre, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
www.csc.ucreative.ac.uk  

Weald and Downland Open Air Museum
www.wealddown.co.uk

Historic Clothing
www.historicclothing.wordpress.com

Carisbrooke Castle
http://carisbrookecastlemuseum.org.uk/

Bexhill Museum – The Costume Collection
http://www.bexhillmuseum.co.uk/the-costume-collection/

Chepstow Museum
http://www.monmouthshire.gov.uk/chepstow-museum

Societies

Medieval Dress and Textile Society (MEDATS), Clothing and textiles secular and sacred
www.medats.org.uk

Costume Society of Great Britain
www.costumesociety.org.uk

Textile Society promotes the study of textile disciplines and celebrates the history and culture of textiles
www.textilesociety.org.uk

West of England Costume Society
www.wofecostumesociety.org

Northern Society of Costumes and Textiles
www.nsct.org.uk

Costume Society of Scotland
http://www.costumesocietyscotland.co.uk/

Costume and Textile  Association for Norfolk Museums
http://www.ctacostume.org.uk/ 

 

Companies & Services

Hampshire Wardrobe provides a costume hire service for schools and  drama groups
www.hants.gov.uk/wardrobe

JMD&Co – Makers of fine reproduction period costumes
www.jmdandco.com

Whitchurch Silk Mill
www.whitchurchsilkmill.org.uk

Meg Andrews – Antique Costumes and Textiles
www.meg-Andrews.com

The School of Historical Dress – Directors Jenny Tiramani and Vanessa Hopkings – London based – To join mailing list for updates on events and courses write to info@theschoollofhistoricaldress.org.uk
www.theschoolofhistoricaldress.org.uk

Period Costume Information Sites

The Tudor Tailor
www.tudortailor.com

Tudor Effigies, A database of photographs of 16th century dress on funeral monuments
www.tudoreffigies.co.uk 

Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, An international survey of medieval stained glass, in Britain
www.cvma.ac.uk

Miscellaneous

The Textile Conservation Centre
http://www.textileconservationcentre.org.uk/
 http://textileconservation.academicblogs.co.uk/

University of Brighton – Listing of Dress Collections in Museums and other Institutions in the South, South East and South West of England
http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/study/history-art-design/dress-collective/listing-of-dress-collections

http://www.profilesofthepast.org.uk