Important new online Fashion resource - Berg Fashion Library

The Berg Fashion Library -an authoritative source on world dress

The Berg Fashion Library is a unique online portal which offers fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and much more. For a full list of content click here.

Students and scholars in disciplines as diverse as anthropology, art history, history, sociology, geography, folklore, museum studies, theatre, and cultural studies as well as fashion and textiles will find the Berg Fashion Library a treasury of fascinating insights into people and cultures all over the world.

The Berg Fashion Library will be updated at least three times a year.

photos sources of the human figure

Where can I find photographs of figures in different poses to draw?

These books are listed under the subjects, human figure in art and anatomy-artistic pictorial works. Follow this link for a combined search of both subjects.

Or try these:
Virtually browse the call number area NC765

Entourage(architectural rendering)

Eadweard Muybridge

The Picture Collection collects images and arranges them into folders by subject. Follow this link to see folders on human figures

New database - Commercial Patterns Archive

CoPA Commercial Pattern Archive
The Commercial Pattern Archive database, CoPA, provides a unique tool for researchers and designers to recreate or date clothing from 1868 to 2000. There are several collections from the States, Canada and the UK represented in the database which functions like a Union Catalog of pattern collections. The cornerstone of CoPA is the Betty Williams Collection. Betty Williams, a theatrical costumer in New York City, pioneered research on commercial patterns in the early 1980s. She became a leader in the field, establishing a major personal pattern collection and encouraging others to actively participate in the collection and storage of patterns. Betty passed away in 1997 leaving a wealthy legacy of research, and an extensive pattern collection now housed at the University of Rhode Island. The Williams Collection is combined with the URI and Joy Spanabel Emery Collections in the Commercial Pattern Archive in URI Library Special Collections.
To login, contact the RISD Library Reference Desk for the username and password.

Textiles journals

Is there a list of all the Textiles journals RISD library currently subscribes to?
Craft:transforming traditional crafts
Crafts
Embroidery
Handwoven
Hali
Shuttle Spindle & Dye Pot
Modern Carpets and Textiles
Selvedge
Surface Design
Textile View
Textile View2
Textile History
Threads
Top Fashion Knitwear

Contemporary Textiles

What are some sources on contemporary textile artists?

Telos Portfolio Collection
By Hand in the Electronic Age: Contemporary Tapestry

fashion forecasting

What are some sources for fashion and color forecasting?

Try these websites:
itbd
mode...information
wgsn-edu
PeclersParis
edelkoort

Try these printed sources:
Bloom
Provider
View2 magazine

Material ConneXion Site Visits

How can RISD students and faculty arrange a visit to Material ConneXion in New York City?

There are three categories of access to Material ConneXion:

1) Free 20 minute tours for 5 or more students can be arranged by calling ahead and arranging a time.

2) Individual students can arrange for 4 hours of research access for $90. Scheduling an appointment is necessary.

3) Otherwise, Material ConneXion on-site access is arranged by an hourly, ticketed system.

One hour admittance coupons cost $50 each.
The minimum number of coupons that can be purchased at a time is fifty.
Speak to the head of your department to arrange access to Material ConneXion.

RISD Library subscribes to the Material ConneXion database
library.risd.edu > Resources > Reference

Contact Material ConneXion at: webmaster@materialconnexion.com